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Eight Ways to Cut IT Costs | Faronics
IT managers are constantly pressured to deliver smooth performance at the lowest possible cost. Recently that pressure has noticeably increased since inflation has ramped up across large swathes of the world. The price of everything is rising significantly, and IT departments are focusing even more carefully on savings. Fortunately, any IT manager can consider plenty of low-hanging fruit.
1.  Reduce Hardware Dependency
If you’re still maintaining servers to run your core activities, it must be worth seriously considering whether that approach still provides you with value for money. Almost all business needs can now be fulfilled in the cloud – so you can aim to eliminate all your servers and, therefore, a hefty chunk of maintenance costs. Â
2.  Automate Software Updates
A massive proportion of an IT department’s time can be taken up by delivering software updates. It’s vital from a security point of view that your devices are running all the latest versions. But there’s no need for any process to be manual – you can schedule it all to happen outside of production hours.Â
3.  Automate Windows Updates
Similarly, Windows updates need not consume any precious time; all the magic can happen when you’re asleep, and nobody’s working. Or, if you prefer to set an approval stage, you can do so – but whenever you need to know which patches are in place on which devices, that information should be readily available on one screen.
4.  Stop Wasting Money on Software you don’t need
When budgeting time comes around each year, and Heads of Departments tell you what their software requirements are, it’s rare for anyone to tell you they need less of something but typical to say they need more. It needn’t be difficult for those discussions to take place in full possession of the relevant facts: if you’ve paid for 100 expensive licenses but you can see in real-time that you’re only using 30, then get rid of 70.
5.  Stop Travelling to Support Calls
Remote connect been embedded in typical IT support processes for a while now, so if you’re still trekking around various buildings on your site or even driving to different locations, it must be worth looking at endpoint management solutions, including remote connect as standard.
6. Don’t Waste a Single KWH of Electricity
This one might not fall directly into IT’s cost center, but still, there are significant contributions you can make to cut your organization’s overall energy bill. It’s now easily possible to put in place power management plans that reduce the consumption of your workstations without any negative impact on user experience.
7.  Cut Out Loads of HelpDesk Tickets
Suppose you use a reboot-to-restore solution that returns any workstation to its original state upon restart. In that case, you’re likely to find that a massive slice of helpdesk tickets disappears – a restart is often all that’s needed.
8.  Prevent Hardware Degradation
A further benefit of reboot-to-restore is that it significantly reduces the effect of hardware degradation. Your workstations are costly, so you want to get total value from that massive investment. Each time a user starts a session, they’re doing so unencumbered by all the junk that clogs up a machine over time – and can still preserve all their work by syncing to a cloud drive.
Faronics Cloud is a complete endpoint management solution that will cut your IT costs in these eight ways with zero downtime. The potential saving in just one area could be enormous, but multiply up, and you’re recouping some severe cash.
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