Computer Infrastructure is the foundation or
framework that supports systems in your organization. In computing,
information technology infrastructure is composed of physical and
virtual resources that support the flow, storage, processing and
analysis of data. Infrastructure may be centralized within a data
center, or it may be decentralized and spread across several data
centers that are either controlled by the organization or by a third
party, such as a colocation facility or cloud provider.
Data center infrastructure often includes the
power, cooling and building elements necessary to support data
center hardware. The data center hardware infrastructure usually
involves servers; storage subsystems; networking devices, like
switches, routers and physical cabling; and dedicated network
appliances, such as network firewalls.
A data center infrastructure also requires
careful consideration of IT infrastructure security. This can
include physical security for the building, such as electronic key
entry, constant video and human surveillance of the premises,
carefully controlled access to the server and storage spaces, and so
on. This ensures only authorized personnel can access the data
center hardware infrastructure and reduces the potential for
malicious damage or data theft.
Outside of the data center is an internet
infrastructure, which includes transmission media, such as fiber
optic cables, satellites, microwave -- line of sight -- antennas,
routers, aggregators, repeaters, load balancers and other network
components that control transmission paths. Internet infrastructures
are designed, built and operated by internet service providers
(ISPs), such as Verizon and AT&T. When a business engages an ISP for
internet access, the ISP typically ties into the data center
infrastructure within a dedicated and secured building space.
To create a traditional data center
infrastructure, organizations typically follow a formalized process
that starts by analyzing and accessing business goals, making
architectural and design decisions, building and implementing the
design, and then optimizing and maintaining the infrastructure. The
process usually involves detailed expertise, including data center
building design, subsystem and component selection, and quality
construction techniques.
However, the way IT infrastructures are created
is continually changing. Traditional heterogeneous infrastructure
development is a highly manual process that requires enormous
integration, optimization and systems management efforts --
especially when integrating servers, storage, network and other
components from diverse vendors.
Infrastructure management is often divided into
multiple categories. For example, a building management system (BMS)
provides the tools that report on data center facilities parameters,
including power usage and efficiency, temperature and cooling
operation, and physical security activities. Systems management
includes the wide range of tool sets an IT team uses to configure
and manage servers, storage and network devices. Increasingly,
systems management tools are extending to support remote data
centers, along with private and public cloud resources. Management
tools are also making extensive use of automation and orchestration
to improve efficiency, reduce errors and comply with established
best practices or business objectives.
As business needs and available technologies
advance, organizations can use a more diverse assortment of data
center infrastructure types to meet business goals. While these
infrastructure types are not necessarily mutually exclusive, they
are rarely discussed together.
An immutable infrastructure is an approach to
managing services and software deployments on IT resources wherein
components are replaced, rather than changed. An application or
service is effectively redeployed each time any change occurs. For
example, a patch or hotfix might update a conventional app, but an
immutable infrastructure does not support this. Instead, IT deploys
the newer app, redirects traffic to it and retires the old app.
A composable infrastructure is a framework that
treats physical compute, storage and network fabric resources as
services. Resources are logically pooled, so administrators don't
have to physically configure hardware to support a specific software
application. Admins can organize and manage the resources through
software tools using a high level of automation and orchestration,
enabling software-defined infrastructure capabilities for the data
center.
A dynamic infrastructure is a framework that
can automatically provision and adjust itself as workload demands
change. This minimizes the time and effort needed to manage the
infrastructure and vastly reduces errors, while ensuring resources
are used as efficiently as possible. IT administrators can also
choose to manage these resources manually.
A critical infrastructure is a framework for
which assets are so essential that their continued operation is
required to ensure the security of a given nation, its economy and
the public's health and safety. The concepts surrounding high
availability (HA) and resilience are essential here, often including
remote data centers and cloud resources to support workload
redundancy.
A contact-center infrastructure is a framework
composed of the physical and virtual resources that a call-center
facility needs to operate effectively. Infrastructure components
include automatic call distributors, integrated voice response
units, computer-telephony integration and queue management.
A cloud infrastructure includes an abstraction
layer that virtualizes resources and logically presents them to
users over the internet through application program interfaces and
API-enabled command-line or graphical interfaces. Additional
capabilities include user self-service, automated billing or
chargeback, and user-side reporting, so users can see the resources
and services they deploy, as well as corresponding costs. Similarly,
a cloud storage infrastructure is a framework composed of hardware
and software that supports the computing requirements of a private
or public cloud storage service.
A dark infrastructure is the part of a
framework that is composed of undocumented, but active, software or
services whose existence and function is unknown to system
administrators -- despite the fact it may be integral to the
continued operation of documented infrastructure. This is often
referred to as shadow IT, and it can become a serious security or
compliance vulnerability for the organization.
We provide a wide variety of Computer Infrastructure solutions ranging from small networks to large enterprise-wide configurations.
Some of our Computer Infrastructure clients include:
Computer Infrastructure Services
Windows Server OS Upgrades
Data Migration/Server Configuration Services
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