Along with the growth of any
organization, its IT infrastructure also grows, becoming more complex, and
difficult to maintain. In order to control and manage this growth, some
guidelines or pathway is needed. “Infrastructure Optimization”
(or IO) refers to the optimization of IT infrastructure of any
organization to support and improve its business i.e. turning its IT
Infrastructure from ’cost center’ to ‘business center’ for the
organization.
In 2010, Microsoft had
released details about 3 models as guidelines for Infrastructure Optimization of
any organization:
1) Core Infrastructure Optimization
Model
2) Business Productivity Infrastructure
Optimization Model
3) Application Platform Optimization
Model
Each of these models focuses
on different set of IT attributes (called Capabilities) used within the
organization, depending on level of use of IT made by the organization. These
capabilities provide guidelines for scaling and optimizing the IT infrastructure
of the organization. In any organization, all the three models will be applied
simultaneously. Details of these models are provided in a section in this
document.
Note:* The organization implementing the IO model
should have a basic setup of IT department and good number of staff to maintain
it. Also, the level of optimization achieved (basic, standardized, rationalized
or dynamic) also depends on organization policies and convincing capabilities of
salesperson.
IBM: IBM offers IBM Infrastructure Optimization
Services with cloud computing, which focuses on addressing the testing of
current infrastructure for efficiency and determining its capacity for change
and responsiveness. Through its Testing Center of Excellence, test plans for
introducing technologies such as service-oriented architectures can be made, and
user can perform integration, performance and scalability testing. These
services can help speed implementation and time to value with reduced risk,
helping them build an infrastructure that is designed to Support business
flexibility, improve resource utilization and thus help reduce overall IT costs
and lower complexity.
These IO Models helps its customers understand, scale
and gradually improve the current state of their IT infrastructures in terms of
cost, security, risk, and operational agility. Dramatic cost savings can be
realized by moving from an unmanaged environment (i.e. ‘Basic’ level) toward an
environment of fully automated management and dynamic resource usage (i.e.
‘Dynamic’ level). Security improves from highly vulnerable in a Basic
infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more optimized infrastructure. IT
infrastructure management changes from highly manual and reactive to highly
automated and proactive. Thus it results in an overall benefit to the
organization.
1) ‘Infrastructure
Optimization at Microsoft’, available at http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/about/overview.mspx
.
2) ‘Infrastructure
optimization services’, available at http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offerfamily/gts/a1027697
.
3) ‘Infrastructure
Optimization’, available at http://www.tcs.com/offerings/consulting/infrastructure-optimization/Pages/default.aspx
4) 'Offerings:
Infrastructure Optimization' available at http://www.infosys.com/microsoft/offerings/pages/infrastructure-optimization.aspx
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