Overview

While most executives realize that technology is crucial to the running—and the success—of their businesses, many will admit that the state of their IT systems is less than optimal.  You need an infrastructure that can help advance rather than impede your business.  The vision of infrastructure optimization that BMS is working toward is to help our customers realize the value of their investments in their IT infrastructure, to make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset that enables agility within their organization, and ultimately help them create an infrastructure that works for their business, not the other way around.

The purpose of the Infrastructure Optimization Model is to assess a customer's current level of optimization and then build an effective plan to create business agility through a Dynamic IT environment—enabling them to realize the full value of their investment and achieve their key business solutions.

Dramatic cost savings can be realized by moving from an unmanaged environment toward a fully automated management and dynamic resource usage environment.  Security also improves from highly vulnerable in a basic infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more optimized infrastructure. Infrastructure management changes from highly manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive.  The first step in using the IO model is to evaluate what optimization level you are currently at. Once the current level has been established, the next step is to use the model to develop a plan on how to progress through each level in order to reach the target level needed for maximum business benefit.

Core Infrastructure Optimization Model

The Core Infrastructure Optimization model helps you understand and strive for a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core infrastructure that will help enable you to reduce your overall IT costs, make better use of IT resources, and make IT a strategic asset for your business. This model supports IT professionals in the management of servers, desktops, mobile devices, and applications and in achieving efficient resource usage to help you eliminate unnecessary costs and complexity, ensure that your business is always up and running, and establish a responsive infrastructure.

The Core Infrastructure Optimization model defines five capabilities that are required to build a more agile infrastructure:

1. Identity and Access Management
2. Desktop, Device, and Server Management
3. Security and Networking
4. Data Protection and Recovery

5. IT and Security Process

Toward Dynamic IT

So, what will your business look like when it arrives at the final level of optimization?

• Automated processes will be aligned to business goals.
• People will work smoothly with processes that are automated, often incorporated into the technology itself, allowing IT to be aligned and managed according to business needs.
• Additional investments in technology will yield specific, rapid, and measurable benefits to the company.
• Security compliance issues will be under control.
• Self-provisioning software and other technologies important for data retention and auditing will result in
  improved reliability, lowered costs, and increased service levels.
• Your IT will feature the capability to adapt IT services easily to changing business needs.
• Service management will be implemented for all critical issues with service level agreements and operational reviews established.
• The business will be more aware of the strategic value of its dynamic systems infrastructure in running its operations efficiently and staying ahead of its competitors.
• The business will be able to adopt more technology faster and with less risk.
• Costs will be more controlled.

While there are company-level benefits when investments are made in technologies that enable more dynamic systems, the list business and IT professionals benefit can too. The more people are enabled by systems that can self-manage to adapt to changing business demands, the more empowered they will be to contribute to the success of the business.

Want to Know More?

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