Insight of My Company and its IT A. Infrastructure:The Institute is having state of art computer laboratories equippedwith latest PC configurations running on various software platforms.These laboratories are well supported with high end backend serversplaced centrally at the server room which offers various services like:AD, DNS, DHCP, RADUIS, TMG, Anti Virus and Anti Spyware, etc. Theentire campus wide LAN is also meets the latest technologies for thebest throughput and 100% availability for the users. Among variousservices on the network Internet plays a major role and itsavailability make the uses of all these applications very effective. B. Security Measures:As per the policies the entire network is protected from theunauthorized users on LAN and WLAN. The access to various services aregrouped effectively under group policy and replicated throughout thecampus. The entire campus is well equipped with the latest Anti Virussoftware for protection and the Internet bandwidth is protected with afirewall, antivirus, and anti spyware for gateway level protection. C. Storage & Backup Strategies: As the data is the most crucial part of any organizations daily workprocess. The central storage at various servers in the server room iswell protected with various policies and hierarchal access permissions.The storage system is also having a well devised backup policy forscheduled and customized backups.
Views on new technologies Cloudcomputing plays a vital role in infrastructure convergence and sharedservices, which can facilitate an organization to port its businessprocess on the cloud. This type of environment allows enterprises toget their applications up and running faster, with easier manageabilityand less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust ITresources (such as servers, storage, and networking).
Virtualizationon the other hand is also a vital player in Enterprise IT trends today;it enables an IT environment which will be able to manage itself basedon perceived activities. The goal of virtualization is to centralizeadministrative tasks while improving scalability and overallhardware-resource utilization.TheCloud and Virtualization can be combined together to improve businessprocesses and their availability and delivery of these services to theend users.
Resources to Keep Updated with Latest Technologies The institution is always active towardsthe skill development of the students as well as faculty and staff tomake them updated according to the industry requirements. There areseveral programs and events which are organized on the regular basis atthe institute campus for achieving the same likely: Student DevelopmentPrograms (SDP’s), Faculty Development Programs (FDP’s), Seminars,Conferences, Webinar Sessions, Peer to Peer trainings on varioustechnologies.
Team Size There are 44 members in my team.
Biggest Pain Point Being a self financed educationalinstitution there is no Governmental funding so managing the resourcesand providing the latest technological blends to all the users is thebiggest challenge. Though, we are committed to provide Best qualityeducation.
Technology to Address Pain Points Technology always plays a vital role inproviding the effective solutions to the problems causing anyhindrances in the business processes, so technology can address thosepain points.
Challenges Faced As already mentioned that data andinformation is the most crucial part of the organizations businessprocesses so it is an asset to the organization. It should be protectedwith unauthorized access and fail overs like system or hardware failures.
IT Leader – Manager First or Technologist First Although it becomes an advantage if theIT Leader is having a blend of IT or he/she is a technologist, but anIT leader should be a manager first.
Latest Technology Theorganization can look forward for the new technologies in the areas ofERP, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Online events, Virtual Classroom conc.
