Five tips to get better reliability from your IT infrastructure

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Learn how to make the right modernization choices to boost IT reliability and increase uptime. Joseph George from HPE and Jim Rapoza from Aberdeen have all the details in their podcast. Get a preview here. 

Do you want to have a reliable business?

That’s a standard rhetorical question—of course you do! To get what you want, though, you need reliable IT infrastructure supporting your efforts.

Jim Rapoza, VP & Principal Analyst for Aberdeen, and Joseph George, VP Compute and Industry Alliances with HPE, spent time together in this podcast to help you understand how to make the right modernization choices to boost reliability and increase uptime

Out with the too old

At some point all systems become legacy, reaching an end of usefulness, adding to your problems and increasing complexity while you try to integrate older technology which was not designed for new emerging technologies.

The pressure always to be on is not solved by a 100% cloud approach, either, according to Jim. In fact, he says that hybrid cloud with on premises core and cloud is a better approach. With an hour downtime costing a business an average in the mid to high six figures, you need to make the right choices to maximize uptime. Emerging trends such as an increase in the on premises private cloud and as a service models point toward the reality of a modern hybrid environment.

Five tips from Aberdeen

1. Cloud and on-premises requirements—get to know them well. There is no one-size-fits-all approach—although hybrid cloud covers a lot of territory. You can benefit by mapping out the ideal modernize infrastructure for your needs and placing the right processes and workloads in the right places, be that public cloud, private cloud or on-premises.
2. Work that core! As any good fitness coach will tell you, a strong core is integral to a strong body. In this case, we’re talking about developing a rock hard on-premises core as a foundation for the rest of your infrastructure.
3. Working together. It’s not just people who must team up well. Any infrastructure you modernize simple must play well with your existing processes and environment, e.g., cloud and on-premises must integrate as one.
4. Downtime is lost money. Keep those services up and running. A hybrid infrastructure with fault tolerance, failover and high availability can greatly boost your reliability.
5. Don’t sit still. Be ready for the next wave of IT. Working with experienced partners keeps you apprised of how to innovatively embrace and benefit from new technologies. The world is a quickly and always changing place.

Hurdle the challenges that disrupt modernization

Don’t let yourself get stuck in a tunnel-vision approach of only upgrading on premises hardware without understanding the keys to success; learn five steps from this industry expert to help you toward better infrastructure reliability. Listen to our podcast and download the Aberdeen checklist to get you started.

Mark Simpkins
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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