3 Tips That Help You To Stretch Your IT Budget
3 Tips That Help You To Stretch Your IT Budget 19
August

3 Tips That Help You To Stretch Your IT Budget

There has been a significant decline in the IT sector, especially during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, which leads to a global recession with the rising cost of cloud and IT infrastructure. So, in order for business enterprises to thrive and scale in the digital landscape, it’s paramount for data centres to feature content delivery, data distribution, and business support. This enables system administrators to identify cost-effective opportunities that enables greater degree of efficiency. Usually IT agility always goes over the budget; However, we have three tips that will surely help you to stay within your IT budget.

Tip#1: In-Adequate Know-How Of Your Equipment’s Lifecycle

Most businesses tend to hold on to their traditional ways of transitioning towards newer strategies. This is because they don’t generally have adequate knowledge of their equipment’s lifecycle. For instance, they tend to upgrade their functional equipment such as routers, transceivers, switches, wireless access points, servers, and other equipment every five years or so. In this time period, they either trade with new ones or discard their old equipment. Now, we don’t mean to say that upgrades aren’t necessary; but we do suggest that these upgrades should have flexibility in their frequency. Businesses should be independent and liberate enough to upgrade structure of their IT environment with an access to reliable third-party maintenance vendor and not fully depend on the manufacturer. This approach will save your infrastructure cost with improved IT agility on equipment which will liberate you from upgrading your equipment regularly to receive regular software updates. On average, this new way of an upgrade will save you about 50 percent cost of your current equipment.

Tip#2: Leverage Hybrid Approach To Achieve Innovation And Efficiency

To reduce data center complexity and increased scalability hyper-convergence and the cloud are incorporated into IT infrastructure. The growth and transformation of environments pave way for hybrid models to become an ideal choice for the adoption of the cloud. There was once a time when IT environments were used as a uniform piece that was designed to transform and be replaced at the same time. Now, there is a need to opt different approaches towards IT environments, separating the entire infrastructure into various components, with each component having different priorities. As per the budget, enterprises will be able to analyze and figure out which products innovations are required that would be beneficial and which existing products don’t need to change their respective place. This hybrid approach helps in achieving innovation and efficiency which would streamline business processes and operations.

Tip#3: Integrate Refurbished Equipment

We are fully aware that most enterprises don’t think highly of refurbished equipment. However, ORM Systems have the utmost expertise in finding the right and the most reliable equipment for your network expansion and integration. Our refurbished equipment helps you effectively utilize your storage and network hardware. This is because all of our refurbished equipment goes through stringent quality standard tests to be capable of delivering excellence to your IT network infrastructure. Our refurbished products are already configured to be used right away. As our products meet the highest standards along with a flexible warranty policy, you will never feel like you’re using a refurbished product.

Wrapping Up

Well, there you have it, three tips that will surely help you to stretch your IT budget. You need to have a thorough understanding of your equipment’s lifecycle and be flexible in upgrading your equipment. Use a hybrid approach for innovation and efficiency that will smoothly run your business operations. And finally integrating refurbished equipment is an ideal choice when you’re looking for a cost-effective solution for your network expansion.


To learn more about stretching your IT budget, get in touch with our IT experts who will guide you in setting up your IT infrastructure.


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