How can an IT department survive in the current environment?

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Hello everybody! Question to system administrators and technicians who work absolutely in any organization. I was asked to throw a list of questions on IT in connection with the sanctions, suggestions for surviving in the current conditions and how to work in the coming year, if someone had something similar at work, please unsubscribe

Answer 1

Until nothing fundamentally changes, there will be a reorientation towards China (in fact, it has been happening for a long time). There will be some shortage of server hardware, but most companies now have an abundance of server capacities, but until problems appear, something may change.
Perhaps it makes sense to buy some consumables (disks for storage, cartridges, drums for printers).
For laptops and PCs, no sanctions have yet been introduced, there will simply be an increase in prices in accordance with the dollar / yuan exchange rate.
Services that are critical for business, probably, it makes sense to drag them from foreign data centers to the Russian Federation.
It is also worth getting ready for salary growth, as IT specialists are now in demand and, in the face of rapid price growth, can take a closer look at the market.
It probably makes sense to look at analogues of software whose manufacturers have either joined the sanctions or suspended work with Russia - Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Adobe, Autodesk, etc. True, you probably shouldn’t immediately rush to change this software, but it’s better to study the analogues.
ps all of the above is just an opinion that does not claim to be absolute truth.

Answer 2

Take and survive, solving specific problems.
If a service leaves the Russian Federation, look for a way to pay for licenses bypassing it, or look for alternatives to it (in extreme cases, pirate it)
If access to some services is lost, for example, to repositories, raise mirrors of these repositories inside yourself, connect a VPN or proxy to abroad.
There is nothing unsolvable. There is only fear and limited resources.

Answer 3

Umm... yes, as usual. just increase finances for IT by 3 times ...
do you have any services that are closed or what? details are unclear...

Answer 4

Well, try to actively hire and expand the staff, there is so much more work, a certain number of free programmers have appeared very temporarily, but this is not for long

Answer 5

Paper! Or introduce EDI so as not to waste paper.

Answer 6

- Prepare for import substitution, transition to linux and tyrnet segmentation into parts. Yes, hello, Cheburnet!
- All data from Google drives, dropboxes and other "free" strawberry hunters to pick up and transfer to the same services in the Russian Federation, or refuse them altogether
- Transfer all services tied to non-Russian servers belonging to non-Russian legal entities to Russian lawyers
- Replace all software with subscription licensing - MS Office, Autodesk etc with analogues of Russian production or free ones, preferably cross-platform ones, because there is a total transition to Linux ahead.