Infrastructure Management Challenges

Introduction

As technology prevails to be a prevalent factor in today’s ever changing world, organisations need to ensure that their overall processes are protected and that strategies are put in place in order to keep up with these changes. This means the sustainability of the organisation’s overall architecture, including its Information technology. This is where we introduce Infrastructure Management as the crux of this essay in order to display what it entails, its benefits, implementation challenges as well as its modern trends/evolvement. Infrastructure Management will be defined in this essay is through the analysis of its two components- these components being (1) Infrastructure and (2) Management. Firstly, Infrastructure is defined

Since the overall infrastructure of a company, more specifically the IT infrastructure of a company, is so heavily reliant on data, whether it is data regarding its customers, technologies, software or simply the usage of its data (for example on the cloud), it is critical to have a pragmatic Infrastructure Management in place. The reason being, the reliability of the networks which supports these data is extremely volatile. Example networks being: the internet and data centers. The internet is the main network supporting cloud computing and its data. As everyone has access to the internet, the data of an organisation is constantly under threat from being stolen or lost. With regards to data centers, organisations will need to keep in mind that as its infrastructure expands and more data is used and added within the organisation, the data center(s) it uses can only hold a specific capacity. Furthermore, a further implementation challenge is installation (and installation costs). Even though a sensible Infrastructure Management will save an organisation in costs in the long run, the installation of the Infrastructure Management solution will still need to be done, a` nd it does come with a few costs. These costs include licensing costs (a once off

Furthermore, the trends surrounding it can only contribute to the overall improvement of the organisation. Despite the implementation challenges that occur when it is initially introduced within an organisation, the benefits of exercising Infrastructure Management provides to be greater than its challenges. This being said, it is imperative to make use of Infrastructure Management in order to ensure that your organisation is protected and can keep up with the new innovations and trends as technology changes at a rapid pace every