IBM  

In more detail, what areas of the infrastructure should be the focus of optimisation?

When considering the network and how it's optimized to deliver business critical applications to enable change, certain areas which naturally tend to get some of the focus, they would be how the application is delivered over the infrastructure, is the network application aware and by application aware I mean provincial enough in a way that low latency, right amount of bandwidth, is load balanced correctly, is quality of service enabled to allow guaranteed delivery of traffic. That's the type of thing I'm thinking of here in terms of what area of network we should be looking at. It's not just network, it's the wider infrastructure. We should be considering security, we should be considering your wide are service provider and the service levels they provide, what reporting can you have, management, mitigating risk to the business, is this availability, looking at your infrastructure, is it configured correctly, uprooting protocols, does it re-converge following failure. All these different parameters and scenarios should be considered when looking at your infrastructure; a blindfolded view of the network is not the way forward. The view is, let's go forward, look at the end to end impact application users, security mobile, and therefore identify the areas of infrastructure which are the best place to be optimized.