Chapter 1. Strategic Information Technology Initiatives

This chapter includes the following topics:

Managing Applications

Managing Distributed Servers

Facing the Unavoidable WAN

Changing the Application Business Model

Consolidating and Protecting Servers in the New IT Operational Model

Organizations, companies, and governments have been using a distributed workforce for hundreds of years to more effectively reach a target audience, regional market, or geographic territory. Today, with advances in information technology, larger companies must compete in a global economy, which results in a workforce that is distributed globally. Supporting the applications that the distributed workforce must access to perform their daily tasks to drive ...

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