Optimizing Your Core Infrastructure

What Is Infrastructure Optimization?

The vision of Infrastructure Optimization is to help customers realize the value of their investments in IT infrastructure, to make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset that enables agility within their organizations. An optimized IT infrastructure is adaptive to the industry environment and has the ability to bring new products and services to market in a timely and cost-effective manner, by connecting people, information, and business processes to increase market responsiveness and help eliminate inefficiencies.

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Server infrastructure plays an increasingly critical role in enabling your organization to meet its goals, but the pace of today’s market can strain server resources, increase management burdens, and drive up costs. Integrated IT Infrastructure Optimization solutions from Microsoft help to manage servers and applications more cost-effectively, enhance security and compliance, and gain the agility that will drive business performance.

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What Is Core Infrastructure Optimization?

The Core Infrastructure Optimization model helps drive a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core IT infrastructure to enable organizations to help reduce their overall IT costs, make better use of IT resources, and make IT a strategic asset for the business. The key challenge in this area is to support IT professionals in the management of servers, desktops, mobile devices, and applications to help customers eliminate unnecessary cost and complexity, ensure that their business is always up and running, and establish a responsive infrastructure.

Adopting the Core Infrastructure Optimization approach can help your organization to:

Control costs	Improve security and availability	Increase agility
Reduce hardware, utility, and space expenses for data center operations. Reduce testing for major deployments and regression testing for application compatibility. Reduce training expenses and free up costly IT personnel for higher-value uses. Increase system uniformity, avoiding conflicts and accelerating problem resolution. Prevent security breaches and subsequent clean-up efforts. Reduce remote site visits in branch operations.	Reduce service interruptions from security breaches. Maintain a robust disaster recovery process, avoiding service interruption and speeding recovery in case of a catastrophic event. Avoid desktop configuration conflicts and accelerate help-desk resolutions. Quarantine out-of-compliance remote systems and unstable line-of-business (LOB) applications.	Increase the flexibility and ability of IT to adapt to changing business conditions. Rapidly provision new capabilities. Dynamically assign resources to demanding workloads in near real time. Enable zero-touch self-provisioning and automatic configuration. Streamline and accelerate software deployment.

Learn more about Infrastructure Optimization, Dynamic IT, and increasing your IT agility at the Core Infrastructure Optimization Portal.

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