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watt, bandwidth/watt, transaction or message/watt) basis instead of on a
cost-per-gigabyte or energy-per-gigabyte basis.
3.3.1 Infrastructure Resource Management Software Tools
Falling under the umbrella of
infrastructure resource management
(IRM)
are various activities, tools, and processes for managing IT
resources across different technology domains (servers, storage, networks,
facilities, and software) with diverse interdependencies to enable IT appli-
cation service delivery.
Aspects of IRM include:
Logical and physical security, including rights management and
encryption
Asset management, including configuration management databases
Change control and management, along with configuration valida- ...