Archive for November, 2009

How to reduce your IT budget by 67% in 2010

A patchwork quilt

Recently, a client came to us with a simple brief. They were consolidating their offices around the UK, and wanted an IT solution which would tie all their sites together, allow them to access their IT remotely, and keep all their company data backed up, safely, off-site.

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The 3 key roles for effective capacity management

by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

Good capacity planning is worth the effort

The benefits of an effective capacity management programme are well known to most IT departments. Proper capacity management allows you to:

  • Reduce infrastructure costs by sweating your assets
  • Meet agreed service levels by avoiding capacity-related outages
  • Accurately budget for infrastructure growth by projecting future requirements
  • Avoid project delays by having appropriate resources on-hand

And, by now, most IT departments have some form of capacity planning tool implemented which can give them fairly accurate reports on current and past usage.

But what are you doing with those reports? Who attends your capacity planning meetings? And do you have a dedicated capacity planning manager?
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