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For an organization's information technology, infrastructure management (IM) is the management of essential operation components, such as policies, processes, equipment, data, human resources, and external contacts, for overall effectiveness. Infrastructure management is sometimes divided into categories of systems management, network management, and storage management. Infrastructure management products are available from a number of vendors including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Microsoft.
Among other purposes, infrastructure management seeks to:
- Reduce duplication of effort
- Ensure adherence to standards
- Enhance the flow of information throughout an information system
- Promote adaptability necessary for a changeable environment
- Ensure interoperability among organizational and external entities
- Maintain effective change management policies and practices
Although all business activities depend upon the infrastructure, planning and projects to ensure its effective management are typically undervalued to the detriment of the organization. According to IDC, a prominent research firm (cited in an article in DMReview), investments in infrastructure management have the largest single
impact on an organization's revenue.
- Project startup - describing the design and acceptance criteria, plus responsibilities and assumptions on your part
- Site implementation plan - covering housing of infrastructure components (servers, storage, networking) and deliverables (high availability,
configuration, testing)
- Implementation services - integrating services, operating systems, storage, middleware, applications, and networks.
COREXPRTS have the focus, experience, and perspective to help you gain solid control of business IT. The processes and solutions that comprise our Infrastructure Management Services portfolio are geared to stabilizing and reducing complexity
in your IT environment, optimizing your assets, and helping you respond quickly
to change. We specialize in identifying redundancies, recognizing bottlenecks, and staying technologically current.
What's more, we believe you should have as much flexibility and choice as possible. We don't lock you into rigid outsourcing models. We don't insist on using proprietary technology. Working together with your IT executives, COREXPRTS Services experts will develop tailored solutions that support a specific function, as well as a departmental or enterprise-wide IT needs - including management of your servers and storage, Web services, network operations, datacenters, and security.
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