Your company’s IT infrastructure is made up of various components and devices which together form a complex infrastructure. The management of your IT assets and systems must take into account various factors such as the availability of your IT assets, the protection and management of company data, the life cycle of the various IS elements, etc.
Optimizing your company’s IT resources is a strategic issue for all SMEs. In fact, optimized management can reduce IT-related costs, while improving overall business performance and employee productivity. But having a reliable IT campus means taking many parameters into account and implementing several devices in combination. Here are 5 tips for optimizing your IT equipment, so you can benefit from high-performance tools for your event.
Standardize your IT assets
The main difficulty in managing an IT estate is coordinating the various IT equipment into a coherent whole. For smartphones, tablets, servers and workstations running different operating systems, it’s not easy to define management policies for devices of different natures. As a result, most companies opt for a homogeneous IT estate, providing all workstations with the same operating system. This solution avoids software conflicts and facilitates upgrades across the entire infrastructure. However, while this may seem the simplest option, you need to make sure that each of your employees has the best IT tools for his or her actual task, purpose and needs. Optimizing your IT assets shouldn’t mean sacrificing employee performance by giving them restrictive tools. Before standardizing your IT equipment, seek the advice of a company specializing in IT maintenance, who will be able to analyze your team’s real needs and propose the best solution.
Carry out a complete examination
Optimizing your IT assets means knowing this well in advance. Have you made a complete inventory of your infrastructure? your equipment? Your software solution? A complete audit of your IT equipment can uncover lost equipment and redundancy solutions. Analyzing your IS is the first step in optimizing your IT assets. Ask your IT outsourcing service provider for a complete review. He will then be able to provide you with the best solution for your business and the future development of your company, with a system in place in the long term.
Set up a monitoring system
Setting up a monitoring system enables you to continuously monitor and analyze the activities of your IT infrastructure. This is also known as IT asset supervision. While this solution can be used to detect unusual activity linked to hacking or intrusion attempts, it is also very useful for accurately measuring the activity of various elements of IT equipment. This enables you to identify weaknesses in your IS and optimize your IT assets on the basis of this data. By setting up a monitoring system for your IT equipment, your outsourced IT service provider will be able to detect the failure of your IS and provide you with the most appropriate solutions to facilitate your company’s activities, thanks to available resources and reliable IT.
Optimize your IT infrastructure with outsourced servers
The enterprise server is the nerve center of your IT system. It not only enables your teams to exchange information, but also offers data storage and backup capabilities. It must therefore be perfectly adapted and tailored to your company’s needs (telecommuting, multi-site, confidentiality, etc.). However, it is often difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to maintain and protect their servers in-house. You can also optimize your IT assets by outsourcing certain services, such as messaging or servers. In fact, the solution enhances data protection by hosting them in secure datacenters located in France. But server outsourcing first solves the problems inherent in SMEs by offering you modular, scalable storage that fits your budget.
Focus on preventive maintenance
Optimizing IT asset management is also essential, to boost performance and availability. To do this, you need to take care to avoid breakdowns, outages, data loss and cyber-attacks as far as possible. Maintaining healthy IT systems is a challenge for companies. Preventive maintenance enables you to optimize your IT equipment to keep it operational on a daily basis: regular software updates, network monitoring, antivirus protection, etc. Implementing a preventive maintenance strategy can significantly reduce the number of incidents and increase the availability of various IS elements. What’s more, preventive maintenance allows you to better manage your IT budget by extending the life of your equipment.
For over 20 years, hardware maintenance and outsourcing company PSM Technologie has been helping SMEs to improve their IT performance. Our experts will identify the areas in which you need to improve your IT infrastructure, and suggest the best solution to meet your real needs. Thanks to your outsourced service provider, you can optimize your IT assets while controlling your budget and respecting the specific uses of your employees.