Live infrastructure operates in dynamic online and business environments. Preventive maintenance is crucial to ensure that it will cope with the multiple unplanned changes in these environments.
Monitoring is crucial to put in place in order to keep confirming that, despite the environment changes, the infrastructure is still performing up to expectations.
Infrastructure optimisation also includes constant exploration of how costs can be better managed or reduced based on technology advances or re-configuration. Any changes will follow this cycle once more from the Discovery stage onwards...