Business through Remote infrastructure management

More than 70% of the IT budget is eaten up in managing the IT infrastructure. Its not only the cost but also the effort and skill required to maintain and manage the crucial IT infrastructure.

Remote Infrastructure management(RIM) comes out with the solution to this problem. Companies across the globe have realised the benefits of RIM and started outsourcing their IT. This has resulted in the phenominal increase in the RIM market.

The benefits of RIM are tremendous, most prominent being the cost effectiveness. In fact companies end up saving as much as close to 44% by managing the IT infrastructure remotely. In fact its not just only the cost that drives the RIM market but also the value a company gains by focussing on its core function.

RIM bails out companies from the painstaking work of managing their servers, networks, applications, databases, legacy systems, assets etc. System Intergraters like IBM, Accenture, Infosys etc have gained lot of business from this segment of business.

Another driver for RIM would be the current economic situation and lower IT budgets. Companies will slowly start looking at managing their IT remotely in order to save costs. Also the focus is going to shift towards making IT a more productive function. Going forward IT will be looked upon as revenue center rather than just being cost center.

IT has the potential in reaching out to more customers and increasing the channels through which companies can start generating revenues. IT department of a company should start focusing on increasing sales and in bringing in business for them.

All these are possible only when the IT department of any company is relieved from the daily hassels monitoring, reporting, managing and maintaining the availibility of its crucial IT assets and infrastruture.

In short this is the time for companies to not only start looking at RIM for cutting down their costs but also as a way to generate more value, thereby resulting in more business.