by Bruce Robertson (Author), ValentinSribar (Author)
Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise explains how adaptive infrastructure techniques can create a more focused, organized approach to delivering and supporting high-agility applications for e-Business and beyond. Along the way, the book recommends best practices for dealing with architecture and technology issues within the infrastructure in a way that can lead to success.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Addison Wesley Enriching the Value Chain is a strategic guide to organizing your IT infrastructure by mapping business drivers to a fundamental set of proven patterns. Drawing on advanced research conducted by META Group, it shows how to build infrastructure that supports business agility -- and how to avoid architectural pitfalls that can prevent you from achieving changing business goals. The authors begin by introducing Adaptive Infrastructure Strategy: its key features, advantages, and terminology. They lay a foundation for Adaptive Infrastructure, showing how to identify gaps between where you are where you should be; and how to identify and utilize key architectural patterns, especially patterns for Web publishing and n-tier transaction-based applications. You'll walk through the design process, mastering powerful predictive cost modeling and performance measurement techniques; then refine your design on a component-by-component basis, covering security, networking, and other key layers. The book includes detailed coverage of staffing, funding, and organizational issues associated with successful infrastructure management, and shows how to effectively package IT infrastructure into common services for consumption by business unit customers. Part of the Intel Press IT Best Practices Series, focused on identifying and sharing best-practice strategies for delivering Internet-based solutions that meet key business challenges. For every IT decision-maker and implementer.
Published: 28 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0201767309
ISBN 13: 9780201767308
Book Overview:
BRUCE ROBERTSON leads META Group's infrastructure development program, working with clients to plan their e-Business and enterprise systems from a pattern perspective. His areas of technical specialization include directory and security services, networking, middleware, and e-Business infrastructure. Previously, he was a senior technology editor at Network Computing Magazine, a director of consulting for a Los Angeles technology consulting firm, and manager of an online services marketing joint venture.
VALENTIN SRIBAR is general manager of META Group's Infusion offerings, helping clients adapt their processes and organization to cope with any combination of dramatic business and technology changes. Previously, he was a senior consultant with the technology services practice of Ernst & Young, where he developed information technology architectures and networking designs.
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