UK Companies Waste 80% Of IT Budget On Maintenance

Published 24th April 2007

UK Companies Waste 80% of IT Budget on Maintenance

IT Managers still failing to use systems management solutions.

UK IT departments are investing an unnecessarily large proportion of their time and budgets on maintenance, whilst failing to utilise the systems management tools that are currently available to them.

Research by Quocirca reveals that up-to 80% of an IT budget can be spent on simply maintaining an existing infrastructure. Consequently IT departments have very little time or money to spend on long term solutions that could make day-to-day life easier for technical staff and help to lower departmental costs.

A key part of any systems management toolkit should be an imaging software solution. For greatest efficiency, this solution needs to enable the creation of a controlled set of Image files that will work on any business-class PC or Laptop within the environment.

Running alongside most industry-standard cloning applications, the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) enables the creation and management of such images, thus dramatically reducing the amount of time an IT professional would traditionally spend on patching, cloning and disaster recovery. The Big Bang software, distributed in the UK by Binary Resource, reduces the time taken to support and maintain the technology infrastructure from a matter of hours to just minutes, freeing up valuable resources to spend on more urgent technical issues whilst cutting overheads substantially.

Clive Longbottom, Research Director at Quocirca, stated: “Systems management is a strong, funded area within most organisations, yet most organisations still feel that they have a long way to go to provide the dynamic response to systems issues that the business demands.”

He continued: “Systems management staff can use existing systems management tools combined with disk imaging tools and image management tools such as UIU to reduce cost and improve response times markedly”.

Annette Dow, Director of Binary Resource UK, said: “The findings by Quocirca reinforce the concept that not enough is being done to modernise and innovate IT departments. Forward thinking and preventative measures need to be applied, as opposed to the trend of dealing with problems as they arise. Employing systems management tools such as UIU should be seen as a strategic board decision, aimed at making IT departments more effective and successful throughout.”