A company’s IT infrastructure forms the backbone of digital processes, data storage, and communication networks, facilitating efficient business workflows. A well-designed and robust IT infrastructure enhances productivity and fosters innovation, ultimately contributing to the company’s strategic goals and success.
IT managers are grappling many challenges at the moment. These include pressure from the business to digitalise and automate internal processes, managing a growing remote workforce, not to mention ever increasing and sophisticated hacking attempts.
Digitalisation considerations: Navigating the complexity of integrating new technologies into existing infrastructure, protecting company systems from phishing and cyber attacks, and addressing the need for skilled personnel capable of managing and optimizing digital systems. Additionally, managing the cultural shift and ensuring effective communication throughout the organization are critical aspects that IT managers must navigate to successfully drive and sustain digital transformation initiatives.
Hybrid and repatriation: Companies especially in the media and AI sectors are reasling that they need to have more flexibility in their infrastructure in order to meet business needs and keep costs low. Where they want to move some systems and workflows to private cloud or bare metal. As most of these companies reduced their original IT staff on their first move to the cloud, migrating off their cloud provider is not practical without recruiting new experienced staff.
Infrastructure trends: Companies will continue to digitalise their businesses in order to remain competitive and be able to better integrate with their trading partners. Organisations who moved to the cloud with the promise of lower costs will reconsider whether being fully cloud-based makes sense and will start to look at hybrid solutions such as managed bare metal.
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At the CTO Advisory we have extensive experience in hybrid, multi-cloud and managed bare metal infrastructure. We help companies break cloud lock-in and help with migrating systems and applications to on premis or managed private cloud. This approach also helps organisations with their business continuity plans as they are able to failover to another cloud provider or own private cloud.
