3 Ways Your IT Environment May Be Inefficient

Inefficiency burns the candle at both ends. When it comes to your IT environment, inefficiency has the instant ramifications of less than ideal performance at present day. This can mean less output in whatever sense is relevant to your business, but at the end of the day this translates to fewer commas in your figure for company revenue. However, the harder to see cost of inefficiency are the things yet to come. Inefficiency and sloppy organization can lead to damaged equipment, requiring repair, which is then bogged down by the disorganization and inefficiencies that caused the problem in the first place.

At some point in your life, someone should have told you that if you're going to do something, do it right the first time. Escape the vicious cycle of inefficiency with the following practices and by taking advantage of some of the great products offered by companies like Black Box.

Cable Management

Proper cabling is a small step towards increased efficiency requiring minimal effort that can have a multitude of benefits. The first of which is ease of access to your hardware. When you have a mess of wires going into a machine or piece of hardware, it makes further improvements to the system, as well as repairs, a complicated and tedious affair. Secondly, sloppy cable management can hinder airflow to your devices when unrestricted cables create a so-called curtain that then acts as a barrier to your machines. This can create hot spots on your machine that can decrease the efficiency of the machine as well as lead to risks of damage to hardware.

Airflow Management/Climate Control

In physical terms, resistance is directly proportional to temperature. While resistors are key components in circuitry for managing electrical current, you do not want excess resistance in your machines since this causes an overall lack of efficiency for your system. To prevent this and potential damage to your machines, make sure to keep your hardware in a cool, dry environment with adequate air circulation. Recall the aforementioned practice of cable management and check out products like the Black Box ClimateCab PC for when you want to cool the cabinet, not the room.

Proper Organization with Appropriate Cabinets and Racks

It's somewhat of a no-brainier that you want to have an organized IT environment. One of the best ways to do this on a universal scale is to make sure that all of your hardware is mounted and secured using industry-specific cabinets and racks. A great example is the Black Box Zone-4 4 Post Seismic Rack with M6 Rails, which offers the stability of a cabinet with its 1000lb weight capacity and the convenience of an open rack.

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