The Integration of Lean Management and Six Sigma 23

Corporate Angle

Mr. Shashank Sharma Senior Software Engineer,Alepo.

IT Operations V/S IT Infrastructure

There's a reason the term "infrastructure and operations" (also known as I&O) has become commonplace in the IT world. The two fields are complementary. While they operate together to enable service and application delivery — which is what drives today's organisations and service providers' profits — they are not identical.

Introduction to IT Operations and IT Infrastructure

Let's look at the difference between IT operations and IT infrastructure. IT operations, sometimes known as IT ops, refers to all of the tasks involved in setting up, designing, configuring, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports business services. Because it maintains an overall level of operational consistency, it has risen to the forefront of service delivery. IT Infrastructure is the jumble of technologies that make up the physical and virtual systems that supply the networking, computing, and storage that services rely on. Of course, operational stability is the ideal I&O objective for achieving favourable business outcomes. IT operatiosns teams today must deliver a level of predictability that allows for frequent and rapid innovation while minimising interruption to existing services and processes.

Factors Influencing IT Operations and IT Infrastructure

To fully comprehend this subject, we must first recognise the enormous shift in the infrastructure landscape during the last few years. Cloud adoption has been the dominant IT operations approach during the last decade. It has fundamentally revolutionised the way IT infrastructure is built, used, and managed. The shift from traditional infrastructure models to cloud computing is accelerating and becoming inescapable. This IT infrastructure trend is highlighted in a recent Smarter with Gartner brief, which projects that “by 2022, cloud shift across key enterprise IT markets will climb to 28 percent.”

The employment of both private and public clouds adds to the complexity. Cost savings, agility, flexibility, scalability, and elasticity are all advantages of public cloud solutions. However, in many IT operations environments, a private cloud