Holiday Gift Tips for Your IT Manager Hint: They may not Need Another rack of Servers

Holiday Gift Tips for Your IT Manager Hint: They may not Need Another rack of Servers

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) December 19, 2011

The teams in the network operations center and engineering department at Bluehawk Networks suggest instead of buying new stuff for IT–which often results in more IT headaches, how about a different approach? Invest in the resources you have.

Tip #1. ITIL Foundation Training — Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL): http//http://www.itil-officialsite.com/ — On the surface, ITIL is about as exciting as a tax audit. Deeper down…it’s still about as exciting as a tax audit, but at least it has a positive point and tangible benefits. The more people in your organization who how to assess, design and deliver IT services to your organization–in a methodical, repeatable manner–the better your organization will be. By documenting best practices from IT organizations around the globe, ITIL doesn’t require that you change all your internal processes to conform to the edicts of some faceless international standards group. Instead it shows you what to do in a variety of settings. ITIL training and certification is relatively inexpensive and the upside of an IT staff that knows more than what the run book says can be substantial.

Tip #2. Server Consolidation — Entropy may be the natural progression of the universe, but that doesn’t mean you can’t clean up once in a while. While others are nestled away for a winter’s nap, it might be the perfect time to decommission a failing printer, clean up the messy, untraceable patch panels and bring a little order that inevitably creeps into your shop. How can you benefit by virtualizing some of your servers and/or upgrading the resources on your virtualization platforms available today? If you’re a VMWare user, it might be a great opportunity to migrate your hosts to vSphere version 5.0 and bone up on the new benefits through their online training.

Tip #3. Reflect on Accomplishments — As the year draws to a close, take a moment to reflect on all you’ve done this year. What services are you providing well? How can you build on that as you move into the next year? Life in IT can be pretty crazy and even the methodical, process-driven CIO is going to get cornered into the headless chicken tango once in a while. Year-end can be a fun time to spend extra budget on new gizmos and software but before you do any of that, take a moment to reflect on what you really want to do and set out to do it, on purpose, in 2012.

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