Core Infrastructure Optimization - Models, Capabilities and Requirements by Maturity Level

posted by  techgeek (12)  12 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

There's a lot of information posted about Microsoft's efforts around Infrastructure Optimization, also known as simply IO. This is an interesting way to describe the maturity of an IT Infrastructure and also to provide clues to what would be your next logical step in improving it. Your organization can be at any of the four different maturity levels (Basic, Standardized, Rationalized or Dynamic). Microsoft has worked on three separate models (Core, Business Productivity and Application Platform).

This is all great, but most IT people find it somewhat complex to un