Introduction to IMI

IMI offers a new center of excellence, providing research and collaboration for best practice implementation, automation technology and operations processes for streamlining infrastructure management.

Infrastructure Management Institute enables you to collaborate, understand and solve, the needs that will arise tomorrow. As companies look to streamline close-to-the-technology activities, IMI provides the shared services and knowledge to streamline the infrastructure management process and journey.

The understanding and management of IT infrastructure encompasses an array of areas critical to your organization. Membership and participation in IMI helps to identify needs and ultimately improve management in the following areas:

Security

Virus prevention, threat mitigation, intrusion detection, forensics, denial-of-service, firewalls, information security, identity management, user provisioning, secure software development, data loss prevention, privacy, single sign-on

IT Operations

Disaster recovery/business continuity, risk management, systems, server consolidation, virtualization, Windows, Linux, Unix, databases, applications, web technology, middleware management

Service Management

Service Levels (SLAs/SLM), help desk, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), IT Service Management (ITSM)

Network Management

Wired/wireless, mobile technology, storage area networks (SANs), virtual private network (VPN), IPv6

Emerging Technology

AutoID/RFID, smart cards, biometrics, mobile workforce, pervasive computing