It’s Q4, and you know what that means: budgeting season is upon us. If you’re stuck staring at a blank spreadsheet, consider these ten IT budgeting recommendations from tech journalist Jack Wallen:
- Extra licensing fees – Be ready for new hires as soon as you onboard them.
- Emergency hardware replacement – Even the best-maintained equipment fails sometimes.
- Mobile technology – It’s only becoming more important.
- Upgrades – Prevent security holes and ensure you have all the functionality you need.
- IT staffing/support – When your business grows, your infrastructure has to keep up.
- Cloud services – More and more key services are migrating to the cloud.
- Software – Make sure you have what you need to boost productivity and security.
- Training – It can be the difference between having a security breach or preventing one.
- Data pipe – Any business that relies on Internet connectivity needs to ensure it has enough bandwidth — and a secondary connection if the first one fails.
- Backup solution – If disaster strikes, you need to be able to recover your applications and data somehow.