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Maximising business and IT assets for real business value
A dynamic infrastructure can help support the growing intelligence of the business and IT infrastructure assets, creating integrated “smart” assets. This converged, dynamic infrastructure must create a cost effective, highly scalable, secure and resilient service delivery model that enables collaboration and accelerates innovation. By design, the dynamic infrastructure is service-oriented and focused on supporting and enabling the end users in a highly responsive way.
Integrating both the business and IT infrastructures aligns a dynamic infrastructure with the overall goals of the business while taking a more streamlined approach to helping reduce cost, manage risk and improve service.
Improve service
In an effective business-driven service delivery model, all assets-and the people who support them-are integrated, optimised and managed holistically to respond with agility and speed to changing business needs.
Reduce cost
This is not just about driving costs down overall, but to use dollars better and more efficiently. Technologies such as virtualisation and consolidation, energy efficient solutions, integrated service and systems management can all help create a cost-effective dynamic infrastructure that is highly responsive to the ongoing demands of the business.
Manage risk
In today’s fast-paced world, an integrated end-to-end resiliency and security framework is needed to instill trust with users. By enhancing security and resiliency, IT becomes more responsive and better prepared to provide infrastructure security and resiliency.
What are the key elements of a successful dynamic infrastructure?
Each topic below contributes to a holistic approach to improve service, reduce cost and manage risk:
- Service Management (US)
I need to deliver and manage high-quality services when needed and without delay.
- Asset Management
I need to manage all my operational assets and IT assets more effectively.
- Server virtualisation
- Storage virtualisation
I need to reduce costs without losing capacity or capability.
- Energy efficiency
I need a plan to decrease my energy costs and reduce my carbon footprint
- Information infrastructure
I need to manage the explosive growth in data and information with solutions to keep data under control, secure and ready to deliver.
- Business continuity and resiliency
I need to ensure that our systems and operations enable business resiliency.
- Security
I need to protect my systems, sensitive data and information from security threats and vulnerabilities, and manage compliance requirements.
Deploy a dynamic infrastructure
Leverage flexible service delivery approaches to enable access to business and IT services.
