how can you reduce network build up and its operations and m

how can you reduce network build up and its operations and management/maintenance costs?

Solution

1: It costs less to ask questions first
2: The applications, stupid
3: Senior employees should spend less time firefighting, and more time planning
4: As number of support contracts goes up, so does cost of management
5: Beware of the cost of vendor lock-in
6: Plan for the inverse cost curve between hardware and management of hardware
7: Invest in people
8: Hire good negotiators
9: Security programs must evolve
10: Diverse redundancy
11: Monitor your network
12: Avoid solution creep
13: Focus on how you handle downtime
14: Get out of the network business, if it’s not your business
15: Understand revenue opportunities from the network
16: Don’t focus on CAPEX. Look at OPEX as well.
17: Prepare for and predict growth
18: One petabyte of data may be cheap to buy, not to manage
19: Standardize don’t customize
20: Beware of the cost of not upgrading
onclusion: The cost of making a network run smoothly