What is The Infrastructure Optimization Model

According to analysts, more than 70 percent of a typical school districts IT budget is spent on infrastructure, such as servers, operating systems, storage and networking. Add to this the need to refresh and manage desktop and mobile devices and you have a unique set of challenges for IT infrastructure to face.

The Infrastructure Optimization Model can help schools and districts understand and subsequently improve the state of their IT infrastructure and describes what that means in terms of cost, security risk, and operational agility.

The Infrastructure Optimization Model helps districts understand and subsequently improve the state of their IT infrastructure and describes what that means in terms of cost, security risk, and operational agility.

Districts can benefit substantially by moving from this type of Basic infrastructure to a Standardized infrastructure, helping them to dramatically reduce costs through:

•Developing standards, policies, and controls with an enforcement strategy.
•Mitigating security risks by developing a "defense in depth"
•Posture: a layered approach to security at the perimeter, server, desktop, and application levels.
•Automating many manual and time-consuming tasks.
•Adopting best practices, such as those of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL); the SysAdmin,
Audit, Network, and Security Institute (SANS); and so on.
•Aspiring to make IT a strategic asset rather than a burden.