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The Infrastructure Optimisation (IO) Model from Microsoft has been developed using Industry best practices together with Microsoft’s own experiences with its enterprise customers. It is based upon Gartner’s Infrastructure Maturity Model and MIT’s Architecture Maturity Model. A key goal for Microsoft in creating the IO Model was to develop a simple way to use a maturity framework that is flexible and can easily be used as the benchmark for technical capability and business value. The IO Model helps customers understand and subsequently improve the current state of their IT infrastructures and what that means in terms of cost, security, risk, and operational agility. Dramatic cost savings can be realised by moving from an unmanaged environment toward an environment of fully automated management and dynamic resource usage. Security improves from highly vulnerable in a Basic infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more optimised infrastructure. IT infrastructure management changes from highly manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive. Teksys uses the IO Model as a strategic tool, helping to evaluate the maturity level of an organisation’s core technology infrastructure (management, security, and networking). An assessment of a company’s technology adoption relative to the IO Model enables strategic discussions that focus on the business value of deploying new technologies and using the existing platform as a whole. The IO Model is a “journey” across four phases of progressively higher technological maturity: Basic, Standardised, Rationalised, and Dynamic.
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