Today’s network engineers have a tough challenge before them. They have to provide high-availability network infrastructure that can handle traditional applications, as well as multiple virtualized systems and access by smart devices. Both virtualization and smart device management demand an IT organization that is not broken into separate groups for applications, systems, storage and networks.

In this e-zine learn how to form a unified IT department that can build an application-aware infrastructure to create an inventory system that reflects the various types of resources.