Strengthen Security and Improve Reliability with a More Mature IT Infrastructure
Is your core infrastructure a strategic business asset? Complete the self-assessment and find out.
Use this assessment tool to determine the status of your current core infrastructure and learn how to optimise it for efficiency and cost savings. Your results will help you understand where your organisation stands today and can help you plan for an IT environment with best-in-class management, security and efficiency.
Instructions
The assessment is divided into sections according to the five core IT capabilities, and each of the five sections has an average of 12 questions.
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Overview: Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimisation
Microsoft brings you a simple way to benchmark your IT infrastructure for technical capability and business value.
Your IT infrastructure can be a powerful tool to enable your business, but it may not be optimised toward that goal. Microsoft’s Infrastructure Optimisation Model helps you manage your IT infrastructure, achieve dramatic cost savings from your investments, and align your IT infrastructure with the needs of the business. The model has been developed using industry best practices and Microsoft's own experiences with its enterprise customers. The first step is to evaluate the maturity level of your infrastructure based on these four stages:
- Basic: “We Fight Fires” The Basic IT infrastructure is characterised by manual, localised processes and minimal central control, as well as non-existent or unenforced IT policies and standards for security, backup, image management, and deployment, compliance and other common IT practices.
- Standardised: “We’re Gaining Control” The Standardised infrastructure introduces controls through the use of standards and policies to manage desktops and servers; how machines are introduced to the network; and the use of Active Directory services to manage resources, security policies and access control.
- Rationalised: “We Enable Business” The Rationalised infrastructure exists where the costs involved in managing desktops and servers are at their lowest, and processes and policies have matured to play a large role in supporting and expanding the business. Security is proactive with rapid response to threats.
- Dynamic: “We’re a Strategic Asset” The Dynamic infrastructure provides strategic value that helps the organisation run its business efficiently and competitively. Costs are fully controlled. Integration and collaboration between users is pervasive, and mobile users have high levels of service and capabilities.
Each stage in the model is marked by competency in five capability areas:
- Identity and Access Management
- Desktop, Device and Server Management
- Security and Networking
- Data Protection and Recovery
- IT and Security Process
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