IT infrastructure is a broad term, potentially encompassing interrelated and dependent components from network switches to application and web servers. In this paper, the term application infrastructure is used to mean the set of infrastructure components above the operating system such as databases, messaging servers, application servers and web servers. Application infrastructure management is the discipline of creating and making changes to these application components. Like the related, but different discipline software configuration management, application infrastructure management focuses on the processes for and policies about making changes to infrastructure components that support enterprise applications. This paper describes key metrics in application infrastructure management and how to analyze and improve them, specifically using capabilities in mValent Integrity.
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