Infrastructure

• Ensures establishing an enterprise-class foundation for the technology and the business solutions built upon it.

• It includes defining and deploying installation and configuration procedures for the technology stack to provide a highly available, scalable, recoverable, and secure environment. These responsibilities would be executed by systems administrators who understand capacity planning and all aspects of infrastructure management.

• Ensure that the solution adheres to established enterprise IT standards and reuses existing corporate IT resources - servers, network, storage, databases, application servers, middleware, etc. - to the greatest extent possible.

The purpose of the infrastructure and platform management practice is to oversee the infrastructure and platforms used by an organization. The scope of the IT infrastructure includes physical and/or virtual technology resources, these include servers, storage, networks client hardware, middleware, and operating systems.