Infographic 5 Bad IT Habits to Drop
By Insight Editor / 10 Sep 2024
By Insight Editor / 10 Sep 2024
Adopting bad habits for efficiency is common, but you may not even recognize you’re doing them. Discover what habits you should drop to keep your infrastructure running at its best.
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Even as you try to innovate, you don’t want to keep inventing the IT wheel – so you adopt habits and routines for efficiency. But when those habits start actually harming your bottom line instead of helping, it’s time to toss them out.
Do you recognize any of these as bad habits your organization could stand to drop?
Your IT Infrastructure is crucial to every part of the organization. But not every IT dollar is well spent, and not every purchase avoided is actually going to save you money in the long run. Are you spending on separate resources that could be virtualized and consolidated?
Think of your IT spending holistically, and not just as a list of line items. Virtualization can help you spend efficiently, scale quickly, integrate with existing solutions, and address critical security issues.
Over the past year, the total cost of ownership for IT infrastructure solutions has been increased by 13%.
You’ve probably experienced the advantages of converged infrastructure. If not, it’s likely that convergence is on your agenda. But if you consider achieving convergence as a stopping point, you’re missing out on the next stage of efficiency, and the advantages you can get from more edge infrastructure, including easier recovery and greater security.
Consider your current infrastructure critically as you make every IT purchase or architecture decision. Can you virtualize legacy systems?
With hyperconverged infrastructure, every part of your IT ecosystem is more performant and flexible, leaving you ready to extend your IT with edge computing options wherever they make sense, as fast as you want to integrate them
Extend edge infrastructure with hyperconvergence
The cloud has been a boon to enterprise IT. But going all in on cloud as the once and forever solution leaves you dependent on infrastructure you can’t control. And 43% of SME respondents in a recent study named cost control one of their top-five frustrations with public cloud providers. For lower latency, greater security, and a host of other reasons, you don’t want to rely on a cloud-only infrastructure. Many new technology applications already run at the edge, and that trend will continue to grow.
Plan or expand your hybrid cloud strategy, so you can determine which data and which computing loads are most cost-effectively hosted on premises, and which ones are better suited for the cloud.
Every moment of downtime is time that your employees can’t work, suppliers can’t get in touch, and customers can’t place orders or get support. Being in business means being open for business. Yet organizations suffer from an average of 28 hours of downtime in any given year – and for larger enterprises, it’s closer to 45 hours.
Your infrastructure doesn’t need to experience downtime – so refuse to accept it as inevitable. Delhaize, one of the world’s largest grocers, installed a new three-node Scale Computing hyperconverged solution to virtualize a range of services and replace a complex multi-vendor infrastructure in 800 of its stores. The result? A record zero minutes of downtime to date!
It’s tempting to adopt solutions that promise more than you need – but they have a downside. Overprovisioning usually means overspending in the present for what might happen in the future. As technology advances, you may be dealing with a strained budget, and with yesterday’s solutions.
Demand that any infrastructure solutions you adopt can scale along with your needs. There’s no need to overprovision if you know that your infrastructure can grow with your business needs.
Break bad habits with Scale Computing
Hyperconverged infrastructure technologies, like Scale Computing’s SC//Platform, allow you to break bad IT habits and do more with less, radically simplifying IT. It might be time to start investing in technology that changes the way you think about and manage IT for a better and more efficient future for your business.
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