Monday, October 20, 2008

Small IT initiatives ? Then Your Checklist to Avoid Mistakes

Critical IT assets

Most important IT assets to an organization are human resources. But all the senior management people do not appreciate the fact. They concentrate only on the physical assets such as servers, systems and software involved with the organizational IT initiatives. These physical assets are also important to run a business. Physical assets are developing day by day, providing better customization as per the need, being more technically efficient.

Most important assets are unpredictable human operators. Initiative of IT implementation should consider the fact of HR talent pool available. IT future planning also needed to avoid replacement of physical assets, where modifications can be done.

Managing the datacenter

Data warehouses are getting bigger in high acceleration. Unorganized datacenters are making a complex wire-servers-racks relation, visible mess to handle it properly. Poor infrastructure can lead to a higher downtime, maintenance cost and high cooling cost. Infrastructure is the most important to run a datacenter.

IT initiatives have to be planned by considering the fact of datacenters can be the cause of networking hazards leads to the loss of money and time.

Network Password Policies

Passwords are most important to save your servers. But most of the network administrators are constantly handling multiple passwords for multiple purposes. And prefers to writing it down in own system is making network always unsecure. Common platform to create a password protection may be vulnerable to hackers.
IT initiators should have a proper password protection strategy for network administrators to internal users.
 

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