Core Infrastructure Optimization helps an organization better understand and move toward a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core IT infrastructure that will help reduce overall IT costs, make better use of IT resources, and make IT a strategic asset for the 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 cost and complexity, ensure that your business is always up and running, and establish a responsive infrastructure.

Each Optimization model includes specific technical capabilities that provide a comprehensive set of solutions to help advance a customer’s infrastructure and platform Optimization levels. The Core Infrastructure Optimization model defines five capabilities that are necessary to build a more agile IT infrastructure.

Identity & Access Management

This capability describes ways you should consider managing people and asset identities, solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data (synchronization, password management, and user provisioning, to mention few), and how to manage access to resources from corporate mobile users, customers, and partners outside of a firewall.

Desktop, Device, and Server Management

This capability describes how you should consider managing desktops, mobile devices, and servers as well as how to deploy 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 Networking

This capability describes what you should consider implementing in your IT infrastructure to help guarantee that information and communication are protected from unauthorized access. This capability also describes mechanisms to protect your IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.

Data Protection and Recovery

This capability provides guidance on structured backup, storage, and restore management. As information and data stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required. This capability provides guidance in this area.