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Plan the Best Infrastructure for Your Organization
Incremental investments in IT infrastructure don't always get the job done.
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Your Challenge
How do you know when the costs of a major infrastructure investment are justified and how do you get funding approval? This solution set will provide the information and tools you need to:
- Make the case for approval.
- Establish targets for change.
- Pick solutions that balance value and cost.
Knowing when and how to invest in a significant infrastructure change rather than a minor incremental purchase is difficult.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- When it comes to updating your infrastructure to meet business requirements, incremental investments aren't always the best choice.
- When the status quo has a high TCO, or if your needs or the technology choices have changed, it may be time to revisit your infrastructure approach.
- Begin by understanding your future business requirements to decide if you should consider revisiting your infrastructure, and compare the TCO of options to make the final choice.
- Assess the business drivers that justify considering an infrastructure overhaul.
- Evaluate which plan you should choose based on the total cost of ownership, both of an incremental investment and of other, possible solutions.
Get to Action
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Develop both long-term and incremental infrastructure plans
Provide an infrastructure that consistently meets the organization's performance, growth and cost expectations.
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Assess the current infrastructure to identify the least expensive ways of achieving required changes
Ensure that all infrastructure components are able to meet organizational growth and performance expectations.
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Estimate the TCO for a proposed infrastructure change
A basis for comparing alternatives to one another and to the current infrastructure across five key areas of infrastructure: storage, servers, telephony, networking, and facility.
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This is a great resource for me to look into my overall infrastructure improvement plan