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How to build a midsize IT core infrastructure

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How to build a midsize IT core infrastructure

Managing growth in business as the IT infrastructure proliferates can become difficult for any hard-pressed IT team. At the same time, concerns about security and managing the Windows® environment increase. This class explains how an IT manager can ease the burden by assembling and deploying an integrated core Windows infrastructure.

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What you'll learn

  • Understand how growth complicates the IT infrastructure
  • Find out which core IT services are required by midsize businesses
  • Discover how integrated services simplify IT
  • Select and assemble a core services IT infrastructure
  • Efficiently manage, protect and back up the IT infrastructure
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Lessons

» Lesson 1: Understanding information technology requirements and IT infrastructure complexity
The proliferation of technology complicates the midsize IT infrastructure, which drives up both the cost of IT and the amount of disruptive downtime. Here we identify the problems, describe the first step toward solving them and explain how to produce an IT business plan.
Lesson 2: The case for core IT services
Every midsize business requires three core IT services: messaging, security and management. In this lesson, we'll make a case for these core services, then take a look at how Windows Essential Business Server addresses them directly.
Lesson 3: Assembling a midsize IT core infrastructure
To support growth and core services using affordable business solutions, a business often needs to move from what it has to what it needs. This lesson covers the type of IT used in business, paying particular attention to advances in servers and storage and the need for integration.
Lesson 4: Selecting the right business server platform
Selecting from among the many different server options and information technologies comes down to understanding a variety of factors, including performance, reliability, total cost of ownership, integration, the limitations of information systems and the trade-offs involved.

Instructor

» Mike Chapple
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Mike Chapple was working with computers and using the internet long before URLs started appearing on television. He enjoys helping computer users customize the perfect machine for their needs. He currently serves as Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Prior to joining the Brand Institute, Mike was an information security researcher with the U.S. National Security Agency and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. Mike has written the CISSP Study Guide (Sybex), the SANS GSEC Prep Guide (John Wiley), the TruSecure TICSA Training Guide (New Riders), and Introduction to Information Security (Jones and Bartlett). He is a technical editor for Information Security magazine and a frequent contributor to the About.com Databases site and SearchSecurity.com. Mike holds a BS in computer science from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in computer science with an emphasis in secure and trusted systems from the University of Idaho, and an MBA from Auburn University.

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Class reviews

Jan 25, 2010

Good not great

This is a good class and I did learn some very basic stuff about HP servers, blades in particular. Nothing about IT basic infrastructure management.

Jan 6, 2010

How to Build a midsize IT Core Infrastructure

Learned a lot from this course. Increased my knowledge base.

Dec 14, 2009

Help a lot...

Thanks HP learning Center for all classes especially this one. Very useeefull in my IT profession.

Nov 16, 2009

it core infrastructure

one word,,, great

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