Business Infrastructure management
Business Infrastructure management is a vital component of any successful e-business solution. At a high level, infrastructure management comprises four areas:
1) Performance and availability management
2) Configuration and operations management
3) Storage management
4) Security management
Each of these could be applied to both systems and networks. This chapter describes this in detail, and the technology behind IBM e-business solutions in these areas.
A brief introduction to the Common Information Model (CIM) used by systems management software to obtain management data is also provided. Our Infrastructure Management Services help companies to improve their performance by utilizing the right technologies and tools.
It can be classified into Systems Management, Network Management and Storage Management.
IM helps in reducing duplication of effort, confirming allegiance to standards, advancing the course of information right through an information system, promoting compliance necessary for variable circumstances, assuring inter-exploitation among managerial and external entities, keeping up useful management strategies and practices.
