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How much IT has crept out into your remote office and branch infrastructure, and can we rein it back in? Remote file and print services, as well as associated servers and file storage are a traditional model within most organisations. The lack of bandwidth between head office, branch and retail stores forced remote server deployment to provide users with a good enough IT service response. Consolidating remote services into existing devices such as routers, and consolidating remote services and data back into centralised efficiently operated data centres is high on the consolidation and environmental agenda. Collapsing remote services into a well-managed environmentally efficient central processing and storage environment can have considerable benefits where large numbers of remote file and print services exist, as well as the side benefit of improved information lifecycle management and regulation of that remote data. Removing remote technology predicates the increase in centralised technology requirements, but the reduction remotely is significantly greater than any new central requirements. This strategy has become mainstream through increases in remote bandwidth and new services such as MPLS private networks. |
