Okay, so many of you have built or are building out your virtualized infrastructure. You may have sacrificed your desktop refresh budget to pay for your SAN and VM licensing, but have your looked at the numbers of your business outside of the IT department?
Do you know any of the key finance numbers for the business? If you are an IT Director or consultant, ask the owner/ceo what numbers he's watching; which are the most important? What else is happening within that business due to the current economic climate? Some companies are treating this time as an opportunity for growth and market share acquisition. Some are just hoping to survive.
If you know the key metrics why not try and leverage your IT budget to reduce costs for the business? Don't wait for the owner/CEO to cut your budget, find ways to tell him how you can save money.
One of the best ways may be leveraging managed services and IT Automation. Kaseya is a great tool to reduce administration costs, employee headcount, and too INCREASE service levels to your user base. There are others in this space, like Zenith InfoTech, but via some inside information I think Kaseya can fit either the MSP or the IT Department itself better than Zenith.
