The challenge: controlling IT costs.
Many small businesses struggle to properly design, size and allocate resources for IT infrastructure deployments. With a seemingly infinite array of IT products and services, selecting not only the right technology but also the right-sized IT deployment are key to taking control of your IT costs. Server consolidation, avoiding vendor lock-in and improving the allocation of resources are important considerations in arriving at the IT solution that fits the needs of both your business and your budget.
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What you need to know:
- IT vendors’ tiered approach to hardware sales and components makes it difficult to select the IT deployment that’s sized right for your needs. As a result, you may over-deploy IT resources, which wastes money, or under-deploy, which compromises service reliability.
- IT vendors may push long-term contracts with significant savings, but many small businesses find that technology changes too quickly for a longer-term contract to be the best choice. When a long-term contract ultimately falls short of meeting your needs, you either must pay termination penalties or endure the myriad problems caused by a costly, sub-optimal IT solution.
- With the complexity of today’s web applications, a detailed understanding of database, web server and file server technologies is necessary in order to select the appropriate solutions. You may over-deploy resources by ordering larger-sized hardware when simple upgrades or alternative solutions will suffice. Understanding available technology, plus how it scales and its long-term operation costs, is critical to maximizing your IT investment.
- With the rapid advance of technology, newer servers operate more efficiently than older ones. If your IT infrastructure is more than 30 months old, you may benefit from server virtualization or consolidation, which saves on hardware and long-term management costs.
What rackAID can do for you:
Server consolidation
We design and implement server consolidation plans that can assist in lowering your overall IT expenditures and streamline ongoing management.
Vendor selection
We help you select vendors and service that do not require long-term commitments, allowing you to upgrade and downgrade as your business needs change.
On-demand IT services
We help you control costs and prevent under- and over-deployment issues with on-demand infrastructure that easily scales out for a new product launch or service, then scales back to a normal operation level.
IT optimization
We analyze your current operations to find ways to improve reliability, performance and security, all without additional hardware expenditures.
Server sizing
We can help you select the server and related services that are right for your needs by monitoring your current server or using other projects as a reference.
Management services
We offer monthly IT management services that provide a predictable monthly expense for your IT support and eliminate the need for costly in-house system administrators.
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