I’ve recently been told, by the powers at the top, that the IT department is spending too much money. I?ve read through the old discussions regarding IT spending, but I need a different input.
I’ve come up with a budget for updating the company?s infrastructure and hardware which I think is reasonable considering every sector needs its own web server (virtualisation) and all users need licenses upgrades and so fort. However they think compare to other company?s our size, we are spending too much.
The original infrastructure was setup for 50 employees with 5 different sectors within the one company. We now have 150 employees and 10 different sectors, but the infrastructure and hardware have not been updated for the past 5 years not for the lack of trying from the IT department I might add.
Now they are ready for the upgrade, but as with everything IT, I am trying to balance the cost with the best possible solution available. Are there any IT managers out there who have a similar size company that have been through an upgrade who can share their IT Budget / Cost?