How to start planning your infrastructure?

 You can make a good planning of the infrastructure for your company, following, basically, four steps that are subdivided in several stages.

Ideally, the project should consider your company's strategic executive planning objectives and guidelines . If this document does not exist, however, the minimum to do is to align IT planning with the general objectives of the business.

Mapping of existing structure and demand

The first step is to map the entire existing infrastructure , evaluating each piece of equipment in relation to its life cycle and utility. This analysis allows us to inventory everything that can be used, what should be replaced and what are the demands for expanding the technology park.

The systems engineer will often work together with a project manager and the engineering crew and becomes the primary point of communication to interlink between the two to simplify the accomplishment of a successful system. 

From the assessment of the company's needs, we project the need for new investments , whether in devices, software or expansion of the network and the internet band, for example.

At this point in the planning, it is important to take into account the intention to grow the company and, after a certain period, expand the infrastructure . This growth projection will make it possible to choose the most appropriate IT solutions to adapt to new demands in the future.