Infrastructure Management is one of the major areas of interest. Infrastructure management (IM) is the management of essential operation components, such as policies, processes, equipment, data, human resources, and external contacts, for overall effectiveness. 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 some categories :
Infrastructure management is sometimes divided into some categories :
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.
investments in infrastructure management have the largest single impact on an organization's revenue.
Systems Management:
Systems management is the management of the information technology systems in an enterprise. This includes gathering requirements, purchasing equipment and software, distributing it to where it is to be used, configuring it, maintaining it with enhancement and service updates, setting up problem-handling processes, and determining whether objectives are being met.
Network management and Database management can be viewed as part of systems management or they may be viewed as co-equal parts of a total information system.
Networking Management:
In information technology, networking is the construction, design, and use of a network, including the physical (cabling, hub, bridge, switch, router and so forth), the selection and use of telecommunication protocol and computer software for using and managing the network, and the establishment of operation policies and procedures related to the network.
Storage Management:
In a computer, storage is the place where data is held in an electromagnetic or optical form for access by a computer processor.
There are two general usages.
There are two general usages.
1) Storage is frequently used to mean the devices and data connected to the computer through input/output operations - that is, hard disk and tape systems and other forms of storage that don't include computer memory and other in-computer storage. For the enterprise, the options for this kind of storage are of much greater variety and expense than that related to memory.
2) In a more formal usage, storage has been divided into two:
(1) primary storage, which holds data in memory (RAM).
(2) Secondary storage, which holds data on hard disks, tapes, and other devices requiring input/output operations.
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