With a massive 70% of IT expenditure on Infrastructure... You'll want to get the most out of your investment...
The management of desktop and mobile devices creates a unique set of challenges for your IT infrastructure to face. IT infrastructure is a strategic asset and the critical foundation upon which software can deliver services and user applications that a business needs in order to operate effectively and succeed. For many organizations growth and rapid developments in new technologies have resulted in data center and desktop infrastructures that are overly complex, inflexible, and difficult to manage with built-in costs that are not only high, but somewhat fixed regardless of changing business requirements.
Most organizations recognize the importance of an optimized and cost efficient IT infrastructure and have tried to rationalize their infrastructure and increase their operational efficiency through initiatives such as data center consolidation, desktop standardization, implementing IT operational best practices, etc. Such initiatives undertaken by IT departments in isolation are not sufficient on their own to deliver the desired and long lasting improvements demanded by the business. In order to achieve a sustained improvement in their IT infrastructure, organizations must take a longer term strategic view of IT infrastructure maturity and link these capability and maturity improvements to their business needs and overall business strategy.
The Infrastructure Optimization Model helps customers realize dramatic cost savings for their IT infrastructure by moving from an unmanaged environment towards a dynamic environment. Security improves from highly vulnerable in a Basic infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more mature infrastructure. IT infrastructure management changes from highly manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive.
An enterprise can quickly understand the strategic value and business benefits to the organization in moving from a "basic" level of maturity (where the IT infrastructure is generally considered a cost center) towards a more "dynamic" use, where the business value of the IT infrastructure is clearly understood and the IT infrastructure is viewed as a strategic business asset and business enabler.
The Basic IT infrastructure is characterized by manual, localized processes; minimal central control; and nonexistent or unenforced IT policies and standards regarding security, backup, image management and deployment, compliance, and other common IT practices. There is a general lack of knowledge regarding the details of the infrastructure that is currently in place or which tactics will have the greatest impact to improve upon it. Overall health of applications and services is unknown due to a lack of tools and resources. There is no vehicle for sharing accumulated knowledge across IT. Customers with Basic infrastructure find their environments extremely hard to control, have very high desktop and server management costs, are generally very reactive to security threats, and have very little positive impact on the ability of the business to benefit from IT. Generally, all patches, software deployments, and services are provided high touch and high cost.
Customers with a Dynamic infrastructure are fully aware of the strategic value their infrastructure provides in helping them run their business efficiently and staying ahead of competitors. Costs are fully controlled. Integration between users and data, desktops and servers, and collaboration between users and departments is pervasive, and mobile users have nearly on-site levels of service and capabilities regardless of location.
Processes are fully automated, often incorporated into the technology itself, allowing IT to be aligned and managed according to the business needs. Additional investments in technology yield specific, rapid, measurable benefits for the business.
The use of self-provisioning software and quarantine-like systems for ensuring patch management and compliance with established security policies allows the dynamic organization to automate processes, thus improving reliability, lowering costs, and increasing service levels.
Customers benefit from increasing the percentage of their infrastructure that is Dynamic by providing heightened levels of service, competitive and comparative advantage, and taking on bigger business challenges. Service management is implemented for all critical services with service level agreements and operational reviews established.
The use of zero-touch deployment minimizes cost, time to deploy, and technical challenges. The number of images is minimal and the process for managing desktops is very low touch. They have a clear inventory of hardware and software and purchase only the licenses and computers they need.
Security is extremely proactive with strict policies and control from desktop to server to firewall to extranet, responding to threats and challenges is rapid and controlled.
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