IT Operations Knowledge Archive – Page 58

IT operations knowledge refers to the understanding of the organization’s IT infrastructure and the day-to-day activities required to ensure that it runs smoothly. Effective IT operations knowledge can help organizations optimize their IT infrastructure, improve IT agility, and achieve desired business outcomes.

IT operations knowledge may include:

  1. Understanding IT infrastructure: Organizations should understand their IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network infrastructure, to identify potential areas for optimization.
  2. Monitoring IT performance: Organizations should monitor IT performance, including server performance, network performance, and application performance, to identify potential areas for improvement.
  3. Managing IT incidents: Organizations should have processes in place to manage IT incidents, such as server failures, network outages, and security breaches.
  4. Ensuring compliance: Organizations should ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
  5. Managing IT vendors: Organizations should manage IT vendors, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, and vendor performance management.

Effective IT operations knowledge requires a deep understanding of the organization’s IT infrastructure, as well as the IT operations processes and best practices. IT executives should ensure that their IT operations knowledge is well-documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders across the organization.

The IT Operations Knowledge category within the CIO Reference Library provides CIOs and other IT executives with a comprehensive set of resources that illustrate effective IT operations knowledge practices. This category includes a range of resources, such as articles, whitepapers, and case studies, that offer insights into different aspects of IT operations knowledge, such as understanding IT infrastructure, monitoring IT performance, managing IT incidents, ensuring compliance, and managing IT vendors. By leveraging these resources, CIOs and IT executives can gain a deeper understanding of effective IT operations knowledge practices and optimize their IT infrastructure to achieve desired business outcomes.

Developing an Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy

This whitepaper discusses Intel's cloud computing strategy that believes in adopting the cloud form the inside out. Authored by Intel's employees engaged in implementing the cloud internally it details the opportunistic strategy taking advantage of Saas and gaining experience with IaaA as they prepare for what they characterize a major transition.

ITIL Security Management

This presentation discusses security management within the context of ITIL. The author’s basic premise is the ITIL is not used to implement security but its processes may lead to enhanced security controlled processes.<br />

IT Security Basics

An overview of information technology security – define information security, detail functional areas, discuss security standards and regulations, describe testing techniques for IT security audits, and information security organization maturity levels. This presentation also presents case studies to illustrate theory being practiced.

Automating ISO 27002

This presentation discusses technologies for implementing ISO 27002 processes and controls – which technologies to use? where to start?

Creating a Security Baseline for Windows

Security baselines allow companies to stay in compliance with industry standards and maintain a reasonable level of security assurance. This presentation discusses the creation of a security baseline for a windows based environment.

Application Selection Strategy

This presentation discusses a framework for application selection for ERP, SCM and CRM. It introduces the concept of business discontinuities and how to bridge/leverage them with technology solutions.

Hacking 101

This presentation describes the key vulnerabilities in web applications and discusses how to protect against the next attack.

Best Practices for Acquiring IT as a Service

This paper brings together the collective inputs of industry experts to highlight unique contracting requirements related to cloud computing contracts that can help effectively and safely procure cloud services. <br /><br />Although this paper has been written for the federal government, its content is universally application.

Rethinking the Cloud

Or thinking about it for the very first time! This presentation makes a case for cloud computing.

Cloud Migration Strategies

This presentation discusses the results of a CIO Survey with a focus on the five strategies to migrate applications to the cloud – Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild or Replace.

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