PolySourcIT

Surviving the difficult economic conditions is not simple for any business.

As companies struggle to align operating cost with revenue, unfortunately one of the cost-cutting measures made today is to cut IT cost.

Cutting IT expenses, is a quick answer to helping the bottom line, but is not necessarily the best solution.

Providing the same level of customer service effectively becomes much more difficult. So, what if there were other changes within IT that would help reduce expenses without having to cut valuable resources?

Having been in the IT industry for 20 years, I know the challenges IT organizations face when balancing the IT resources in order to meet the business needs. As a large part of my responsibility over the years, I have applied various solutions that could increase IT infrastructure efficiency while reducing IT spending.


Five ways to reduce IT spending

Servers Virtualization

• Reduce Power and cooling expenses, rack space, management

Data/Services Consolidation

• Reduce IT systems cost by consolidating recourses across different systems or locations

Outsourcing IT services

• End users support
• Systems maintenance
• Software development

Streamline internal IT processes

• Feed to purpose IT solutions
• Add value through business processes automation
• Monitor and reduce running expenses and energy consumption
• Improve software license utilization
• Improve systems uptime using systems monitoring and preventive maintenance
• Improve personnel skill by training, unify infrastructure Management

Managed IT Services

• Offshoring IT services to an outsourcing partner
• Reduce cost of internally hosted service, improve reliability, and reduce risk.