In recent years, advances in information technology have multiplied at unbelievable speed, and your network infrastructure has likely evolved in a somewhat more chaotic way, Often due to time or budget, an increasing gap between the capabilities of the IT infrastructure and business needs.

The network, which is indispensable to allow all infrastructure elements to communicate together, is the most neglected part of IT environments.

This inevitably results in:

• Various flaws in the systems;

• Delays in the execution of orders;

• Serious safety faults.  

Worse still, companies put themselves in a position of vulnerability that undermines growth.

Improve network infrastructure improves business

We can not say it enough: TO be proactive is critical in IT. It's your business growth that is at stake. Unfortunately, too often we are consulted when it comes time to repair the damage. However, there are major business gains related to optimizing IT infrastructure, even if a "disaster" has not yet occurred. 

1. Simplified Infrastructure = more available computing resources

By simplifying the architecture of your computer network, you'll be able to better manage major or minor technological changes, occurring over time.

Indeed, reducing the number of ramifications frees up IT resources and better orchestrate future additions.

2. Functional Infrastructure = increased production

Optimizing your network infrastructure can also detect problems, sometimes well hidden, that slow down your systems. Breakdowns, delays, security breaches are many technical problems that hinder your production and threatens achievement of your business opportunities.

The small daily problems go unnoticed because they do not cause production downtime, however, the combined impact of all these incidents is huge.

3. Good communication = optimized communications network

To ensure optimum communication between different parts of the network, each element of the infrastructure must be seen and treated as part of a whole.

This is why communication nodes must be orchestrated effectively so that your system response time is optimal. Again, this factor is to improve the productivity of your business.

4. Fault Detection = increased IT security

The data you produce is essential for the proper functioning of your company and any breach of this information can jeopardize your delivery capabilities (in addition to other issues such as loss of credibility for example).

Protecting your data through optimization of your systems to detect security vulnerabilities, correct deficiencies and, if necessary, to add other security systems.

What are your priorities for improving the network infrastructure?

The quality of communication links between the different elements of your infrastructure is key to the production of your company.

The switches and routers, which are at the heart of this communication, however, are mistakenly viewed as hardware. Therefore, it becomes often problematic at these critical points in the network infrastructure.

Today, companies like Brocade offering high-end hardware at lower prices than the market leaders. Beyond the cost of the equipment there is the simplification and optimization of the infrastructure that make these routers and switches from Brocade enable enterprises to scale their environments not only for their current needs, but also to allow future growth.

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