IT Necessities for a Distributed World

Chapter 2. The Building Blocks of a Modern IT Infrastructure

Guiding Principles for a Distributed Infrastructure

Remote work is not without its challenges, and the failure to build or pivot to a distributed infrastructure effectively can have serious ramifications, from creating unnecessary bottlenecks to exposing your organization to a security breach that could have been prevented. To optimize your resources and implement a distributed infrastructure successfully, consider the following five guiding principles. They will help you protect your business, optimize efficiency, ease growing pains, and keep initiatives aligned with overarching business goals as you adapt to a distributed world.

1. Approach Your Distributed Environment Strategically

Because a distributed IT infrastructure contains many moving parts that need to work together seamlessly, they are most successful when planned strategically from the outset. However, the need for quick solutions and the ease of getting small initiatives approved over big overhauls make it easy to fall into planning as you go. Keep strategy in mind as you design and optimize your distributed environment.

Further, fight the urge to approach your distributed environment piece by piece. Maintaining a holistic view of your infrastructure will ensure your IT decisions move your organization closer to its goals. It will also prevent a piecemeal approach that can fracture a distributed infrastructure with unoptimized integrations, deviating ...