Establishing Business Oriented System Infrastructure Development Life Cycle for Enterprise Systems

Service oriented organizations rely on resilient computing systems to assist them not only in automating their business but also extending their operation hours to 24 by 7. Two major categories of their computing systems are software and hardware. Many researchers have worked on the software development which emphasizes improving the performance of business processes on the application level. However, without proper supporting hardware infrastructure the effectiveness of these research works is reduced significantly. A proper hardware infrastructure design should fully support the requirements for both system software and applications. The requirements are derived from business objectives. Here we present our approach of system hardware integration design, system infrastructure development life cycle. We applied the this methodology to the two tasks, “Hardware and System Software Installation and Configuration” and “Building a Networking and Supporting Environment”, which are part of ongoing research and education infrastructure development in the Enterprise Computing Systems program at the School of Information Technology at Illinois State University.