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Manage your multi-domain data of any type and any size by developing a custom Master Data Management platform using the Pimcore capabilities.
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The Advantages and Pitfalls of Data Centre ConsolidationDAYWATCHER.COM
Multiple and redundant data centers are common in many organisations. While a certain amount of data centre redundancy provides for disaster recovery and business continuity, what needs to be considered is the significant cost involved in maintaining this additional infrastructure, which in most cases are
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Another important aspect covers the comparison/relation between a MDM system (or Product Master System) and Enterprise PLM system. How can you maximize your ROI on both PLM and MDM investments? With examples from different industries the key takeaways include whether your organization requires an MDM solution or not.
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Organizations are rapidly adopting the cloud data platform, Snowflake. Snowflake helps IT deliver insights to the business more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional data warehouses. In making that move, many companies find that they are missing highly-valued data from systems that are traditionally on-premises, such as the mainframe. Learn how the Syncsort Connect product family is helping IT save time and money getting mainframe data into Snowflake. View this webinar on-demand to:
• Understand common challenges with getting mainframe data into Snowflake and how to overcome them
• Where mainframe data can add value as a source for Snowflake
• A demo on how mainframe data can be integrated into Snowflake in 3-minutes or less using Syncsort Connect
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Saludos,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martínez, PhD – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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http://comunidadwindows.org
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BI is the “Gathering of data from multiple sources to present it in a way that allows executives to make better business decisions”. I will describe in more detail exactly what BI is, what encompasses the Microsoft BI stack, why it is so popular, and why a BI career pays so much. I will review specific examples from previous projects of mine that show the benefits of BI and its huge return-on-investment. I'll go into detail on the components of a BI solution, and I will discuss key concepts for successfully implementing BI in your organization.
Sabre is a technology solutions provider to the global travel and tourism industry, encompassing four business units: Sabre Airlines Solutions, Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Hospitality Solutions and Travelocity. Sabre provides software to travel agencies, corporations, travelers, airlines, hotels, rental car, rail, cruise and tour operator companies. Divisions within each of these groups also service the business or corporate travel market. Sabre grew out of American Airlines and was spun off with an IPO in 2000 and currently employs approximately 10,000 people in 60 countries. In addition to managing the business processes and reporting across the four divisions, the IT group has been tasked to provide an agile architecture to accommodate M&A opportunities in the hospitality industry. Clearly, one of the biggest opportunities for leverage of corporate information assets is travel-related “public” and “private” reference data. Critical to the launch of such a program is to answer the key question “Why after all this time do we need RDM?” This session will provide insights and best practices concerning the establishment of an enterprise RDM program in a large global enterprise by discussing topics such as:
– Establishing the business value of an enterprise RDM program (“Hello, Houston … we have a problem”)
– Overcoming the cultural & territorial obstacles by selling change as a compelling argument for RDM (“Shift Happens”)
– Futureproofing the enterprise RDM program solution, outcome & direction (“What we didn’t think about”)
Every great product is a series of decisions. Some are influenced by market forces, some with data, some with testing, and some are decided by pure old-fashioned gut instinct.
But every type of decision is influenced by your own experiences, though process, and what information you have at hand. Even though you're not aware, you're always influenced by common cognitive biases: the mental shortcut evolution has provided to help humans survive. Even though they have their uses, they lead to us making some quirky, irrational conclusions and decisions, without even noticing.
The first step is awareness. This talk will explore some common cognitive and memory bias and logical fallacies that often come up in product design and decision-making, and how to work around them.
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Multiple and redundant data centers are common in many organisations. While a certain amount of data centre redundancy provides for disaster recovery and business continuity, what needs to be considered is the significant cost involved in maintaining this additional infrastructure, which in most cases are
Master data management (mdm) & plm in context of enterprise product managementTata Consultancy Services
The presentation discusses the classical features and advantages of Master Data Management (MDM) system along with appropriate situations to use it. How do companies apply MDM who design, manufacture and sell their products in several geographies facing challenges in making appropriate decisions on their investment in PLM & MDM space?
Another important aspect covers the comparison/relation between a MDM system (or Product Master System) and Enterprise PLM system. How can you maximize your ROI on both PLM and MDM investments? With examples from different industries the key takeaways include whether your organization requires an MDM solution or not.
A number of studies suggest the number of enterprises switching to Managed Services to focus extensively on their core business processes and operations. The enterprises even have the option to outsource specific aspects of their day-to-day IT operations by choosing from a variety of managed services. For instance, a business can avail specific managed services to run its software applications, manage database operations, monitor system security, manage cloud infrastructure, or protect corporate and user data.
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Get Mainframe Data to Snowflake’s Cloud Data WarehousePrecisely
Organizations are rapidly adopting the cloud data platform, Snowflake. Snowflake helps IT deliver insights to the business more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional data warehouses. In making that move, many companies find that they are missing highly-valued data from systems that are traditionally on-premises, such as the mainframe. Learn how the Syncsort Connect product family is helping IT save time and money getting mainframe data into Snowflake. View this webinar on-demand to:
• Understand common challenges with getting mainframe data into Snowflake and how to overcome them
• Where mainframe data can add value as a source for Snowflake
• A demo on how mainframe data can be integrated into Snowflake in 3-minutes or less using Syncsort Connect
Introduccion a SQL Server Master Data ServicesEduardo Castro
En esta presentación hacemos una introducción a SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services.
Saludos,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martínez, PhD – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
Costa Rica
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http://sqlserverpedia.blogspot.com/
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– Establishing the business value of an enterprise RDM program (“Hello, Houston … we have a problem”)
– Overcoming the cultural & territorial obstacles by selling change as a compelling argument for RDM (“Shift Happens”)
– Futureproofing the enterprise RDM program solution, outcome & direction (“What we didn’t think about”)
Every great product is a series of decisions. Some are influenced by market forces, some with data, some with testing, and some are decided by pure old-fashioned gut instinct.
But every type of decision is influenced by your own experiences, though process, and what information you have at hand. Even though you're not aware, you're always influenced by common cognitive biases: the mental shortcut evolution has provided to help humans survive. Even though they have their uses, they lead to us making some quirky, irrational conclusions and decisions, without even noticing.
The first step is awareness. This talk will explore some common cognitive and memory bias and logical fallacies that often come up in product design and decision-making, and how to work around them.
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Title
DataOps, the secret weapon for delivering AI, data science, and business intelligence value at speed.
Synopsis
● According to recent research, just 7.3% of organisations say the state of their data and analytics is excellent, and only 22% of companies are currently seeing a significant return from data science expenditure.
● Poor returns on data & analytics investment are often the result of applying 20th-century thinking to 21st-century challenges and opportunities.
● Modern data science and analytics require secure, efficient processes to turn raw data from multiple sources and in numerous formats into useful inputs to a data product.
● Developing, orchestrating and iterating modern data pipelines is an extremely complex process requiring multiple technologies and skills.
● Other domains have to successfully overcome the challenge of delivering high-quality products at speed in complex environments. DataOps applies proven agile principles, lean thinking and DevOps practices to the development of data products.
● A DataOps approach aligns data producers, analytical data consumers, processes and technology with the rest of the organisation and its goals.
MGT310 Reduce Support Costs and Improve Business Alignment with Microsoft Sys...Louis Göhl
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Superb high level presentation of the capabilities of the IBM software portfolio. From information, collaboration, integration, optimisation to security, compliance and innovation.
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
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Attacks on counties – USA
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In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
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Download the full report from here:
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Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Learn about:
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
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Here’s what you’ll gain:
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2. TechnologyChange RegulatoryCompliance Competition Security CostReduction Keep BusinessUp & Running End-User Productivity Customer Connection Business Results& New Value More Pressure Than Ever on IT Budgets 20%New 80%Maintenance … with limited resources for advancing capability
4. Infrastructure Optimization 4 User Experience Application Platform Optimization Model Development STANDARDIZED BASIC ADVANCED DYNAMIC SOA and Business Process Data Management Business Intelligence Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization Model Unified Communications Collaboration IT and Security Process EnterpriseContent Management STANDARDIZED BASIC RATIONALIZED DYNAMIC Enterprise Search Business Intelligence Core Infrastructure Optimization Model Identity and Access Management Desktop, Device, and Server Mgmt STANDARDIZED BASIC RATIONALIZED DYNAMIC Securityand Networking DataProtection and Recovery
24. Benefits of Infrastructure Optimization Control costs Greater automation helps drive down maintenance costs Increase agility Improve IT’s ability to respond to and enable business changes Improve security and availability Improve security and ensure availability and data protection
Editor's Notes
Key Message:Amidst all these trends, there’s more pressure than ever on IT. The bulk of IT budgets today is spent just “treading water” rather than adding new business value. Microsoft is focused on trying to help your IT department flip that equation.Talking Points: There are “good” and “bad” pressures on IT. The green arrows represent the good pressure: pressure to add new business value by increasing productivity, driving customer connections, etc. The red arrows represent the “bad” pressures: the necessary, day-to-day pressures that require lots of time, resources, and effort to address but that don’t necessarily push the business ahead. It’s these pressures that consume 80 percent of most IT budgets today, according to analysts; that’s a lot of investment spent on “standing still” when you’d rather be spending resources that add new business value and take the business further. As companies grow, their IT infrastructures grow along with them. But more often that not, the pace of that growth is uneven, driven as much by the conditions under which the infrastructures operate as by the models they aspire to. You add an application here. You add functionality there. You add people across the board. Yet the more variables you add to your infrastructure, the harder it can be to manage and, more importantly, to keep secure. So even as the costs for hardware and software are going down, the costs of managing and supporting your infrastructure are increasing. $140B is spent on management and support—yet software is only 6 percent of it. Software is an enabler…
Levels of MaturityInfrastructure Optimization identifies a maturity level for each of your IT capabilities based on your current technologies and processes. It can also help identify and prioritize improvement efforts. No matter which of the IT capabilities you focus on, you can advance your business toward a state of dynamic IT for that capability. The levels of maturity include basic, standardized, rationalized, and dynamic.BasicA basic level of Infrastructure Optimization is characterized by manual, localized process with minimal central control:• IT governance is negligible, as policies for security and compliance are nonexistent or inconsistently enforced. • The 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.• The environment is hard for IT to control and has high desktop and server management costs. IT is often reactive to security threats.• Software deployments, security updates, and services are provided in a high-touch and high-cost manner.StandardizedAt a standardized level of Infrastructure Optimization, controls are introduced through standards and policies to manage desktops, mobile devices, and servers:• A unified directory service is used to manage resources, security policies, and network access.• Organizations recognize the value of basic standards and policies, but these are not yet implemented across the infrastructure. • Generally, all software deployments, software updates, and desktop services are provided in a medium-touch manner. • Inventories of hardware and software assets are maintained through a reasonable process and license use is managed to an extent. • Security is improved with a locked-down perimeter, though internal security may still require improvements.RationalizedAt a rationalized level of Infrastructure Optimization, the costs associated with managing desktops and servers are at their lowest and processes and policies have been optimized:• Security is proactive and response to threats is rapid and controlled.• The use of zero-touch deployment helps minimize cost, reduce the time to deployment, and decrease technical challenges. • The process for managing desktops is very low touch and the number of images is minimal. • There is an accurate inventory of hardware and software and companies only purchase those licenses and computers that they need. • Security measures involve strict policies and control, from desktops to servers to the firewall to the extranet.DynamicWhen an organization achieves a dynamic level of Infrastructure Optimization, the IT infrastructure becomes a strategic enabler to help the organization stay ahead of competition:• Costs are fully controlled; there is integration among users and information, desktops, and servers. • Mobile users have nearly on-site levels of service and capabilities. • Processes are fully automated and often incorporated into the technology itself, so that IT is aligned and managed based on business needs. • Additional investments in technology yield specific, rapid, and measurable business benefits. • Companies use self-provisioning software and quarantine-like systems to automate software-update management and compliance with established security policies.The capabilities within the Core IO model are as follows.Identity and Access ManagementIdentity and Access Management involves the administration of people and asset identities; access to resources from mobile employees, customers, and partners outside of the firewall; and solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data like synchronization, password management, and user provisioning.Desktop, Device, and Server ManagementDesktop, Device, and Server Management covers the management of desktops, mobile devices, and servers, including planning and deployment for patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also provides guidance on how you can leverage virtualization and branch-office technologies to improve your IT infrastructure.Security and NetworkingSecurity and Networking involves protection for information and communications, including safeguards against unauthorized access. At the same time, Security and Networking focuses on solutions to protect the IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.Data Protection and RecoveryData Protection and Recovery covers the processes and tools that IT can use to backup, store, and restore information and applications. As information stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.IT and Security ProcessIT and Security Process provides guidance based on industry best practices on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security. Though robust technology is necessary to meet an organization’s demands for reliable, available, and highly secure IT services, technology alone is not sufficient; excellent processes and trained staff with clear roles and responsibilities are also required
Levels of MaturityInfrastructure Optimization identifies a maturity level for each of your IT capabilities based on your current technologies and processes. It can also help identify and prioritize improvement efforts. No matter which of the IT capabilities you focus on, you can advance your business toward a state of dynamic IT for that capability. The levels of maturity include basic, standardized, rationalized, and dynamic.BasicA basic level of Infrastructure Optimization is characterized by manual, localized process with minimal central control:• IT governance is negligible, as policies for security and compliance are nonexistent or inconsistently enforced. • The 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.• The environment is hard for IT to control and has high desktop and server management costs. IT is often reactive to security threats.• Software deployments, security updates, and services are provided in a high-touch and high-cost manner.StandardizedAt a standardized level of Infrastructure Optimization, controls are introduced through standards and policies to manage desktops, mobile devices, and servers:• A unified directory service is used to manage resources, security policies, and network access.• Organizations recognize the value of basic standards and policies, but these are not yet implemented across the infrastructure. • Generally, all software deployments, software updates, and desktop services are provided in a medium-touch manner. • Inventories of hardware and software assets are maintained through a reasonable process and license use is managed to an extent. • Security is improved with a locked-down perimeter, though internal security may still require improvements.RationalizedAt a rationalized level of Infrastructure Optimization, the costs associated with managing desktops and servers are at their lowest and processes and policies have been optimized:• Security is proactive and response to threats is rapid and controlled.• The use of zero-touch deployment helps minimize cost, reduce the time to deployment, and decrease technical challenges. • The process for managing desktops is very low touch and the number of images is minimal. • There is an accurate inventory of hardware and software and companies only purchase those licenses and computers that they need. • Security measures involve strict policies and control, from desktops to servers to the firewall to the extranet.DynamicWhen an organization achieves a dynamic level of Infrastructure Optimization, the IT infrastructure becomes a strategic enabler to help the organization stay ahead of competition:• Costs are fully controlled; there is integration among users and information, desktops, and servers. • Mobile users have nearly on-site levels of service and capabilities. • Processes are fully automated and often incorporated into the technology itself, so that IT is aligned and managed based on business needs. • Additional investments in technology yield specific, rapid, and measurable business benefits. • Companies use self-provisioning software and quarantine-like systems to automate software-update management and compliance with established security policies.The capabilities within the Core IO model are as follows.Identity and Access ManagementIdentity and Access Management involves the administration of people and asset identities; access to resources from mobile employees, customers, and partners outside of the firewall; and solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data like synchronization, password management, and user provisioning.Desktop, Device, and Server ManagementDesktop, Device, and Server Management covers the management of desktops, mobile devices, and servers, including planning and deployment for patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also provides guidance on how you can leverage virtualization and branch-office technologies to improve your IT infrastructure.Security and NetworkingSecurity and Networking involves protection for information and communications, including safeguards against unauthorized access. At the same time, Security and Networking focuses on solutions to protect the IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.Data Protection and RecoveryData Protection and Recovery covers the processes and tools that IT can use to backup, store, and restore information and applications. As information stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.IT and Security ProcessIT and Security Process provides guidance based on industry best practices on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security. Though robust technology is necessary to meet an organization’s demands for reliable, available, and highly secure IT services, technology alone is not sufficient; excellent processes and trained staff with clear roles and responsibilities are also required
Levels of MaturityInfrastructure Optimization identifies a maturity level for each of your IT capabilities based on your current technologies and processes. It can also help identify and prioritize improvement efforts. No matter which of the IT capabilities you focus on, you can advance your business toward a state of dynamic IT for that capability. The levels of maturity include basic, standardized, rationalized, and dynamic.BasicA basic level of Infrastructure Optimization is characterized by manual, localized process with minimal central control:• IT governance is negligible, as policies for security and compliance are nonexistent or inconsistently enforced. • The 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.• The environment is hard for IT to control and has high desktop and server management costs. IT is often reactive to security threats.• Software deployments, security updates, and services are provided in a high-touch and high-cost manner.StandardizedAt a standardized level of Infrastructure Optimization, controls are introduced through standards and policies to manage desktops, mobile devices, and servers:• A unified directory service is used to manage resources, security policies, and network access.• Organizations recognize the value of basic standards and policies, but these are not yet implemented across the infrastructure. • Generally, all software deployments, software updates, and desktop services are provided in a medium-touch manner. • Inventories of hardware and software assets are maintained through a reasonable process and license use is managed to an extent. • Security is improved with a locked-down perimeter, though internal security may still require improvements.RationalizedAt a rationalized level of Infrastructure Optimization, the costs associated with managing desktops and servers are at their lowest and processes and policies have been optimized:• Security is proactive and response to threats is rapid and controlled.• The use of zero-touch deployment helps minimize cost, reduce the time to deployment, and decrease technical challenges. • The process for managing desktops is very low touch and the number of images is minimal. • There is an accurate inventory of hardware and software and companies only purchase those licenses and computers that they need. • Security measures involve strict policies and control, from desktops to servers to the firewall to the extranet.DynamicWhen an organization achieves a dynamic level of Infrastructure Optimization, the IT infrastructure becomes a strategic enabler to help the organization stay ahead of competition:• Costs are fully controlled; there is integration among users and information, desktops, and servers. • Mobile users have nearly on-site levels of service and capabilities. • Processes are fully automated and often incorporated into the technology itself, so that IT is aligned and managed based on business needs. • Additional investments in technology yield specific, rapid, and measurable business benefits. • Companies use self-provisioning software and quarantine-like systems to automate software-update management and compliance with established security policies.The capabilities within the Core IO model are as follows.Identity and Access ManagementIdentity and Access Management involves the administration of people and asset identities; access to resources from mobile employees, customers, and partners outside of the firewall; and solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data like synchronization, password management, and user provisioning.Desktop, Device, and Server ManagementDesktop, Device, and Server Management covers the management of desktops, mobile devices, and servers, including planning and deployment for patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also provides guidance on how you can leverage virtualization and branch-office technologies to improve your IT infrastructure.Security and NetworkingSecurity and Networking involves protection for information and communications, including safeguards against unauthorized access. At the same time, Security and Networking focuses on solutions to protect the IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.Data Protection and RecoveryData Protection and Recovery covers the processes and tools that IT can use to backup, store, and restore information and applications. As information stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.IT and Security ProcessIT and Security Process provides guidance based on industry best practices on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security. Though robust technology is necessary to meet an organization’s demands for reliable, available, and highly secure IT services, technology alone is not sufficient; excellent processes and trained staff with clear roles and responsibilities are also required
Levels of MaturityInfrastructure Optimization identifies a maturity level for each of your IT capabilities based on your current technologies and processes. It can also help identify and prioritize improvement efforts. No matter which of the IT capabilities you focus on, you can advance your business toward a state of dynamic IT for that capability. The levels of maturity include basic, standardized, rationalized, and dynamic.BasicA basic level of Infrastructure Optimization is characterized by manual, localized process with minimal central control:• IT governance is negligible, as policies for security and compliance are nonexistent or inconsistently enforced. • The 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.• The environment is hard for IT to control and has high desktop and server management costs. IT is often reactive to security threats.• Software deployments, security updates, and services are provided in a high-touch and high-cost manner.StandardizedAt a standardized level of Infrastructure Optimization, controls are introduced through standards and policies to manage desktops, mobile devices, and servers:• A unified directory service is used to manage resources, security policies, and network access.• Organizations recognize the value of basic standards and policies, but these are not yet implemented across the infrastructure. • Generally, all software deployments, software updates, and desktop services are provided in a medium-touch manner. • Inventories of hardware and software assets are maintained through a reasonable process and license use is managed to an extent. • Security is improved with a locked-down perimeter, though internal security may still require improvements.RationalizedAt a rationalized level of Infrastructure Optimization, the costs associated with managing desktops and servers are at their lowest and processes and policies have been optimized:• Security is proactive and response to threats is rapid and controlled.• The use of zero-touch deployment helps minimize cost, reduce the time to deployment, and decrease technical challenges. • The process for managing desktops is very low touch and the number of images is minimal. • There is an accurate inventory of hardware and software and companies only purchase those licenses and computers that they need. • Security measures involve strict policies and control, from desktops to servers to the firewall to the extranet.DynamicWhen an organization achieves a dynamic level of Infrastructure Optimization, the IT infrastructure becomes a strategic enabler to help the organization stay ahead of competition:• Costs are fully controlled; there is integration among users and information, desktops, and servers. • Mobile users have nearly on-site levels of service and capabilities. • Processes are fully automated and often incorporated into the technology itself, so that IT is aligned and managed based on business needs. • Additional investments in technology yield specific, rapid, and measurable business benefits. • Companies use self-provisioning software and quarantine-like systems to automate software-update management and compliance with established security policies.The capabilities within the Core IO model are as follows.Identity and Access ManagementIdentity and Access Management involves the administration of people and asset identities; access to resources from mobile employees, customers, and partners outside of the firewall; and solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data like synchronization, password management, and user provisioning.Desktop, Device, and Server ManagementDesktop, Device, and Server Management covers the management of desktops, mobile devices, and servers, including planning and deployment for patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also provides guidance on how you can leverage virtualization and branch-office technologies to improve your IT infrastructure.Security and NetworkingSecurity and Networking involves protection for information and communications, including safeguards against unauthorized access. At the same time, Security and Networking focuses on solutions to protect the IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.Data Protection and RecoveryData Protection and Recovery covers the processes and tools that IT can use to backup, store, and restore information and applications. As information stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.IT and Security ProcessIT and Security Process provides guidance based on industry best practices on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security. Though robust technology is necessary to meet an organization’s demands for reliable, available, and highly secure IT services, technology alone is not sufficient; excellent processes and trained staff with clear roles and responsibilities are also required
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Infrastructure Optimization BenefitsCore IO from Microsoft is designed to help control IT costs, improve security and availability, and increase agility to enable customers like you to spend less time and money on maintenance and devote more time to creating and facilitating new capabilities and services to advance the business. Benefits of optimizing your core infrastructure include:Control Costs Higher levels of IT maturity can result in savings of up to 80 percent in IT labor costs. Improve Security and AvailabilityAn optimized core infrastructure can lead to greater business continuity, enhanced compliance, and better, more secure access to network resources. Increase AgilityOrganizations can achieve notable improvements in the ability to provide faster, more responsive IT service and increase agility. The Core Infrastructure Optimization (Core IO) methodology is a comprehensive, proven, and efficient methodology to reduce cost and risk while increasing the security, availability, and agility of the systems in your infrastructure. Core IO is supported with a model, enabling technologies, services, and tools and guidance:ModelThe Core IO model provides a way to think about the challenges that you face, prioritize the areas you want to focus on improving, and organize your activities to pursue those priorities. The model outlines a progression through four levels of optimization and illustrates the strategic value and business benefits of moving from a “basic” level of optimization, where the infrastructure is generally considered a “cost center,” toward a “dynamic” infrastructure, where the business value of the infrastructure is clearly understood and is viewed as a strategic asset.Enabling TechnologiesSupporting each of the Infrastructure Optimization Models are technologies that have been designed to facilitate your progression from a basic level of optimization through to a dynamic level.ServicesTogether, Microsoft Services and an extensive network of Microsoft technology partners provide industry-leading expertise to assist you with your optimization efforts. Microsoft Services has developed a number of Core IO service offerings based on industry best practices, plus Microsoft has established criteria and associated competencies in the Microsoft Partner Program to enable partners to certify that they have the required expertise in delivering advanced-infrastructure solutions.Tools and GuidanceMicrosoft has built an extensive set of resources that fit within the context of Core IO to help you deploy and manage solutions more effectively. These tools and solution guides are free and increase the likelihood of a successful implementation.