Intel has teamed with leading companies and industry experts to publish the comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books for Intel® Architecture-based environments. The result is a single source for the information IT professionals need to plan, develop, deploy and manage e-Business environments. Read more about the IT Best Practices Program.
Building Operational Excellence: IT People and Process Best Practices
Running an effective and efficient IT organization goes beyond just having the right technology in place. IT organizations must have effective ways to meet increased workloads, manage staff levels, and collaborate more effectively with business units. Building Operational Excellence provides valuable insight for organizing IT people and processes, showing you how to improve end-to-end management of critical resources.
This book guides you through techniques of analysis, assessment, and change management that help create the center of excellence. It also offers techniques for implementing meaningful metrics to drive and demonstrate the business value of IT.
Although you can find many reports and briefs on the topics of infrastructure and operations excellence, this book provides a single source of industry-approved, affordable information.
The Adaptive Enterprise: IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth
In 1999, the leading research firm META Group began developing information on IT infrastructure and operations to provide guidance in the area of online commerce. META Group coined the term "adaptive infrastructure" to describe their results. This book explains how to achieve success in infrastructure planning by changing the way things are done. Read the full summary.
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Securing Business Information: Strategies to Protect the Enterprise and Its Network Securing Business Information addresses one of the most prominent challenges in business today: how to keep enterprise information and IT assets secure in an Internet-based distributed environment. This book helps managers understand security challenges and plan for viable solutions. Rather than simply discuss solutions and services, the book goes into important issues such as policy management, staffing issues and project planning. Read the full summary.
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Intel Learning Network Presentation: Adaptive InfrastructureSecurity
This 18 minute presentation discusses the role of security technology in network infrastructures and presents security methods and new authentication technology to validate users and protect network assets.
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Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise
Agility. Since the emergence of the Internet and e-Business, the term has become almost ubiquitous in management circles. Companies are constantly striving to become more flexible, decisive and agile. The third book in the best practices series, Enriching the Value Chain, provides a roadmap for managers seeking to tune their infrastructures for this competitive environment. Read the full summary.
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