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IT Infrastructure and Software Performance

More and more, the productivity of your company is based on the ability to efficiently work in the software applications that run your business. Don’t hamstring your mission-critical software applications by starving them of the resources they require.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

What do I mean by IT infrastructure?

I am talking about the environment (hardware, software, and Internet bandwidth) in which your business software runs. This includes the servers you maintain and host on-premise, and for any cloud-based solutions, it includes the bandwidth you have from your facility to the Internet. For example, most printers host their Print MIS solutions at their location (on their local network) on a physical or virtual server with specific characteristics. Those characteristics include things like hard drive space (how many things it can store) and RAM/core processors (how many things it can work on at the same time). 

IT infrastructure should be boring. When it's boring, it means that your software systems have plenty of power and room to perform well for your users. IT infrastructure is a pain in the butt when you starve it of resources. The starving of resources costs you money in the form of wasted labor hours and lowered productivity. This is not a good way to save money (e.g. hosting your Print MIS on a server that is less powerful than your nephew’s MacBook).


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About Jennifer Matt

Jennifer Matt is the managing editor of WhatTheyThink’s Print Software section as well as President of Web2Print Experts, Inc. a technology-independent print software consulting firm helping printers with web-to-print and print MIS solutions.

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