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Still Trying to Do More With Less
When I first started in tech in the mid-2000s, the phrase “we need to do more with less” came up within my first week. For someone just beginning a sales career, it was unsettling — it reminded me of Tony Soprano’s quote: “But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.”
Fast forward a couple of decades and I can now fully appreciate what the customers were getting at. When you are running a business, team or working to a budget especially in the technology space you have limited funds and the sprawl of technologies needed or used creates its own problems:
- Knowledge amongst your team.
- Time not utilised efficiently.
- Which tool to look at first?
The same challenge that existed then still exists now for businesses. How do we do more with less? Our budget has remained the same as the previous year but due to things like inflation, labour cost increases, FX rates or M&A activity amongst vendors the cost of your solution has increased by 10-30%.
One area organisations can do more with less is Monitoring by utilising Zabbix whose software is free and open source. Zabbix’s approach of Monitor Anything allows organisations to consolidate and customise their monitoring needs and monitor anything:
- Network
- Cloud
- Server
- VMware
- Windows
- Container
- IoT
- Applications
- Logs
- Database
- Services
As organisations have one eye on their FY27 budget the use of open source software is an option they should be seriously considering to help them achieve their technical outcomes but also stay within their budget requirements.
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Written by
Mark Maloney CEO, ICT Networks
August, 2025
