Hardly a month goes past without some manufacturer announcing a new device or new piece of software aimed at business users.
There is nothing unique in manufacturers trying to sell things but the rapid pace of technological change means that it is perhaps rather more frequently seen in IT than other domains.
Another thing that makes Information Technology slightly unusual is that much of it is marketed on the basis not of offering competitive advantage but fear. The fear stated is that if you don’t upgrade or purchase that new piece of kit, your existing equipment may shortly start to creak and groan at the seams and be unable to cope.
In fairness, to some extent, that has some foundation in fact.
Whilst many businesses marvel at what technology can now do for them, the price being paid for that increased sophistication is usually that ever higher-specification equipment is needed to achieve it.
So, should you be running out every 12 or 18 months and replacing your file servers and PCs?
At Server Sentry, we don’t believe that is necessary and we welcome the opportunity to explain why in the context of the following:
• We believe in cost justification. That new technology may appear very sophisticated but will it generate business benefit for you?
• Even if your existing systems are becoming a little elderly in terms of their performance or storage capacity, there may be far more cost-attractive options available to you than buying all-new kit. Examples might include buying additional disk storage or upgrading your processors.
• If you build the big resource-consumption components of your IT systems on the Cloud, you are future-proving yourself to a large extent from growing demands for more capacity and processing power.
So, don’t just reach for the chequebook because your existing architecture is proving to be a bit sluggish. Call us instead and let us do a full analysis for you.
There is nothing unique in manufacturers trying to sell things but the rapid pace of technological change means that it is perhaps rather more frequently seen in IT than other domains.
Another thing that makes Information Technology slightly unusual is that much of it is marketed on the basis not of offering competitive advantage but fear. The fear stated is that if you don’t upgrade or purchase that new piece of kit, your existing equipment may shortly start to creak and groan at the seams and be unable to cope.
In fairness, to some extent, that has some foundation in fact.
Whilst many businesses marvel at what technology can now do for them, the price being paid for that increased sophistication is usually that ever higher-specification equipment is needed to achieve it.
So, should you be running out every 12 or 18 months and replacing your file servers and PCs?
At Server Sentry, we don’t believe that is necessary and we welcome the opportunity to explain why in the context of the following:
• We believe in cost justification. That new technology may appear very sophisticated but will it generate business benefit for you?
• Even if your existing systems are becoming a little elderly in terms of their performance or storage capacity, there may be far more cost-attractive options available to you than buying all-new kit. Examples might include buying additional disk storage or upgrading your processors.
• If you build the big resource-consumption components of your IT systems on the Cloud, you are future-proving yourself to a large extent from growing demands for more capacity and processing power.
So, don’t just reach for the chequebook because your existing architecture is proving to be a bit sluggish. Call us instead and let us do a full analysis for you.
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