Business-driven design of infrastructures for IT services

Journal of Network and Systems Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 422-456

  Sauvé, Jacques P ^a   Moura, Antão ^a   Marques, Filipe T ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b DATAPREV Empresa de Tecnologia e Informações da Previdência Social   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Business driven IT management; IT infrastructure design; Response time; Service availability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; BUSINESS IMPACT; BUSINESS LOSS; BUSINESS METRICS; BUSINESS-DRIVEN IT MANAGEMENT; DATA CENTERS; FINANCIAL LOSS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT SERVICES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RESPONSE TIME; SERVICE AVAILABILITY;

AVAILABILITY; DESIGN; LOSSES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 76649098514     PISSN: 10647570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10922-009-9140-6     Document Type: Article

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