Virtual project management



Table Of Content

Introduction3

Discussion3

Business objectives4

The Solution4

Analysis of Availability and Performance5

Ability Required for Virtual Project Management6

Backing up Virtual Project8

Conclusion8

Managing a Virtual Projects

Introduction

Virtual project management (VPM) is the system by which virtual team collaborates for a period towards the defined objective. Virtual Project is innovative, web based project management tool. It is designed to track various projects. It includes time tracking against projects time on a task. It could also be simply defined as a virtual team working for a project on web and IT, mostly on internet (Barker, 2001).

Today, many companies are already using virtual resources. However, with the advent of virtual resources it carried out adaptation of the funds available in IT infrastructure management to effectively manage both physical and virtual resources. For normal functioning of the business service requires advanced tools to monitor and control that can display the complex relationships between physical and virtual resources, and automatically perform such routine tasks as backing up virtual machines and corrective action in case of exceeding the threshold monitoring.

Discussion

There are several problems faced by the IT department in managing virtual Projects:

A fragmentation process of control is to manage virtual resources used by different processes. This leads to additional costs for management and is a potential source of error.

The absence of a centralized view of virtual IT project is allowing evaluating its performance and operation of IT services and a forecast of utilization of resources.

Fragmentation of the monitoring data, which leads to the need to perform a large number of manual operations to determine the root causes of failure.

Currently on the market is practically not ready-made software, allowing combining all the necessary functionality to manage virtual infrastructure in one tool(Herzog, Valerie, 2001).

Business objectives

Ensuring the smooth functioning of IT services provided to businesses by using virtual resources.

The unification of Virtual infrastructure management processes to reduce labour costs and reduce total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure.

The introduction of mechanisms to assess and analyze the use of virtual resources departments of the company.

Using virtual project infrastructure offers significant advantages for businesses. Analysts predict that soon there will be virtual resources in the IT infrastructure of nearly every company. So today should take steps to optimize existing processes, management of physical resources (such as monitoring, backup, analysis and forecasting of the load) for the management and virtual resources (Eggert, 2001).

The Solution

Today companies offer their customers the best solution to combine the monitoring and management of virtual project with standardized means of monitoring the company. This solution allows customers to use the same procedures for monitoring and control is not dependent on the type of managed objects. This approach allows us to unify the work of the IT department to monitor the project, and thus make it more controllable, reduce labor costs for this work, to reduce the overall cost of monitoring, the total cost of ownership of virtual project (Guss, 1998).

As part of the solution it is the following optimization of management processes for the use of ...