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IT Necessities for a Distributed World
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IT Necessities for a Distributed World

by Ryan Bacon, Kim Crawley
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
43 pages
59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

Is your IT infrastructure positioned for long-term success with cloud technologies and hybrid or remote work? This new distributed world has significant implications for the IT-to-end-user relationship as well as for infrastructure and technology. Failing to adapt effectively can have serious ramifications, from creating unnecessary bottlenecks to exposing your organization to a security breach that could have been prevented.

If you're an IT pro at a cloud-based or partially cloud-based organization—particularly a small or medium-sized enterprise working with a lean team and tight budget—this report is for you. It will help you protect your business, optimize efficiency, ease growing pains, and keep initiatives aligned with overarching business goals as you adapt to a distributed world.

Specifically, you'll learn how to:

  • Maintain a holistic view of your IT infrastructure
  • Keep security strategic and prioritize it in every IT initiative
  • Centralize your toolset to eliminate potential points of failure
  • Establish identity-driven policies to securely connect remote, mobile, and in-office users with the resources they need
  • Provision and track all of a user's resources (on-prem and in the cloud) throughout their tenure
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781098112158