{"id":439125,"date":"2020-10-08T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=439125"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:30:05","slug":"how-hpe-pinnacle-can-prepare-your-it-infrastructure-for-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/439125\/how-hpe-pinnacle-can-prepare-your-it-infrastructure-for-business-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"How HPE Pinnacle can prepare your IT infrastructure for business growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s economy has weakened in recent months for several reasons \u2013 including the COVID-19 pandemic and Moody\u2019s degrading the country to junk status.<\/p>\n<p>This has meant that many businesses have reduced salaries or retrenched staff to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinnacle.co.za\/hewlett-packard-enterprise?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=8_October_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to contact HPE Pinnacle today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, the current global situation has also provided many new opportunities for businesses to expand their operations and take on new products and services.<\/p>\n<p>This is because certain markets have become more important due to COVID-19 trends &#8211; such as remote working &#8211; while in other markets, players that were previously dominant may have lost ground and left space for a new competitor.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Growing your IT infrastructure<\/h3>\n<p>If you see the current economic turmoil as an opportunity to grow your business, it is important that your IT infrastructure improves to support these ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>This can range from simply having more storage space and processing power, to installing new solutions to support new or modernised endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>HP Enterprise (HPE) offers an extensive range of solutions that will help you achieve this and grow your business.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Choosing the right tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>HPE Solutions Architect at Pinnacle, Jeremy Lichtenstein explained that it is important to choose tools that don\u2019t require consistent maintenance and unnecessary work from your IT staff when scaling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour IT staff shouldn&#8217;t be focusing on keeping the lights on. Your infrastructure should be working efficiently on its own,\u201d said Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour IT staff should be looking to innovate and find ways to make your technology more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein added that businesses should ensure the solutions they install serve them for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>This means your IT infrastructure should be scalable and reliable &#8211; and shouldn\u2019t need to be dug up and replaced as new technologies become available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big drive from HPE that you never need to do a forklift upgrade,\u201d Lichtenstein said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, businesses should be able to update their systems at their own pace and based upon how much they can afford to invest into their IT infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Contact HPE Pinnacle today<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to grow your business, HPE Pinnacle is equipped to help you upgrade your IT infrastructure accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>HPE Pinnacle is expertly equipped to service your business\u2019s IT infrastructure needs with a range of HPE products.<\/p>\n<p>It can also run a full assessment of your specific environment to determine what you are currently doing, what you have available, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It will then determine what solutions best suit your business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinnacle.co.za\/hewlett-packard-enterprise?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=8_October_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to contact HPE Pinnacle for more information about their IT solutions.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering growing your business, HPE Pinnacle can help you upgrade your IT infrastructure accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":439129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15329],"class_list":["post-439125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-hpe-pinnacle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439131,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439125\/revisions\/439131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}