Efficiency & Improvement

The key to gaining from an overhaul to improve the efficiency of your business, is to remove what is redundant or no longer needed and to merge existing features.

Some key points would be to look at your network: do you have a network switch in every room? You probably don’t need it. Instead of four or five switches with 5-8 ports scattered all over the place, extend your cable a bit and connect everything to a master 16 port switch. This improves latency and uses less electricity overall.

Are you running multiple servers? Take a look at what they are doing. You might be able to just get one very powerful server and use virtualization to make it perform what all the others are doing in less space, using less electricity and in a much simplified manner.

Just the two points above will have you experiencing less office bloat and using less electricity, therefore being green, helping the environment and giving you more floor space.

While we’re talking optimization, efficiency and improvement, let’s look at other possible wastage. If you have a printer, is it absolutely necessary to have a printer? Perhaps you could consider becoming a paper-less office. Notes can be sent via the computer, receipts can be emailed, quotes can be emailed while documents, spreadsheets and presentations can be sent to the file server. This means gaining more space back, using less electricity again and not using paper means saving a few extra trees to keep the air clean and the earth living healthy.

There are always methods to improve the computing environment in your home or office, simply too many to list (otherwise this would turn into a novel, or encyclopedia!), so if you are interested in streamlining your business processors, computing habits, networks or transitioning to a paper-less office, contact Neuron Computer Services today for an informative consultation that could turn your competitors green with envy!