{"id":1427,"date":"2019-04-25T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:12:00","slug":"it-infrastructure-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/it-infrastructure-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Infrastructure Assessment: 5 Reasons Why It Should Be Top Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/futurism-technologies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/linkedin-logo.png\" alt=\"LinkedIn\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/linkedin-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuturismTechno\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/twitter-logo.png\" alt=\"Twitter\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Twitter\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/twitter-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FuturismTechnologies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/facebook-logo.png\" alt=\"Facebook\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Facebook\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/facebook-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, businesses are losing $21.8 million due to downtime. This dreadful scenario is an outcome of the tendency of the IT departments to be reactive than proactive. Generally, they spend more time in solving the problems instead of trying to identify them before they cause disruption. This faultline especially lies with the small organizations who run short on the quality as well as the quantity of desired experts who are required to avert such downtimes.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation becomes even bleaker as not all problems are immediately visible and tend to build up over a period of time. There is more than a possibility that this unpreparedness will put you on the brink of providing an inefficient and inconsistent service to your end users. That\u2019s precisely where proactive IT Infrastructure assessment shines with paramount importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1) Identify Your Strengths And Weaknesses:&nbsp; <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first and immediate benefit of IT Infrastructure assessment is it gives you a complete and realistic picture of your existing IT systems. Once equipped with it, you can pinpoint the strengths of your <a aria-label=\"IT Infrastructure (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/services\/infrastructure-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IT Infrastructure<\/strong><\/a> as well as the areas where improvements are needed. You can measure how well the network is managed, how good are the IT policies that govern your IT Infrastructure and how perfectly they are being implemented. Consequently, you would be in a better position to visualize and implement robust IT infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2) Early Detection of Problems: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Detection of Problems in IT Infrastructure\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" style=\"width:716px;height:432px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20426%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Image of Detection of Problems in IT Infrastructure\" class=\"wp-image-1428 lazyload\" style=\"width:716px;height:432px\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20426%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Webp.net-compress-image-15.jpg\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Through monitoring failure patterns and regular health\nchecks of your infrastructure, IT Infrastructure assessment lets you identify\nany discrepancies within your systems and understand correlations. Note that\nwithout monitoring your systems, you cannot know if they are running out of\ncapacity. You will find it out only when the issue has transformed into a\nbigger problem. Monitoring the systems takes disruptions like network\ncongestion out of the equation much before they impact end users. This approach\nisn\u2019t only more productive for end users, but it relieves the strain on the IT\ndepartment. This can mark a paradigm shift, as you will be focusing on\npreventing outages rather than fighting fires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3) Meeting Various Compliances: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporate governance is made up of two parts: recognizing\nthe risks faced by the business with respect to software compliance and\nmitigating those risks before they get resulted in reputation damage and\npenalties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT Infrastructure assessment enables you to list out\nsoftware systems that are no longer in use and need to be discarded. You can\nalso take remediation measures by identifying software assets that do not talk\nwith each other and finding possible cases of software overlap.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4) Better Planning Of IT Expenditure:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An IT infrastructure assessment will accurately dot down the\nTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO) for your IT resources including the cost of\npurchase, implementation, and maintenance. It is also helpful in deciding\nwhether functions performed by your current set-up can be performed at a lower\nTCO. Moreover, you can get the most out of your IT Infrastructure by finalizing\nareas in which infrastructure resources need to be replaced to keep up the pace\nwith the business demand. More importantly, it will let you deal with\nobsolescence in a phased manner that allows businesses to plan how they can\nbest assign their resources.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5) Reducing Business Disruptions:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With IT infrastructure assessment, you can find out old,\nfragile and risky legacy equipment from the IT Infrastructure that may be\nsupporting the business. Based on this information, you can come up with a plan\nto replace or refactor the equipment to reduce business disruptions. As it\nweeds out many key vulnerabilities, it ensures higher availability of network\nresources and thereby reduces any disruption to the business.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, businesses are losing $21.8 million due to downtime. This dreadful scenario is an outcome of the tendency of the IT departments to be reactive than proactive. Generally, they spend more time in solving the problems instead of trying to identify them before they cause disruption. This faultline especially lies with the small organizations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/it-infrastructure-assessment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IT Infrastructure Assessment: 5 Reasons Why It Should Be Top Priority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure-management-services","tag-it-infrastructure-assessment","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Effective IT Infrastructure Assessment for Better Efficiency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Improve business performance with an IT infrastructure assessment. 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