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Assignment Details Imagine that you are Chris Configurator, a network administrator for the ABC Company. Your organization is expecting a fiscal year of limited financial resources. You have been asked by the Director of Network Operations to develop a set of recommendations as to how virtualization and network optimization methods could be used as a way to meet the growing demands for use of network services while also controlling the cost of expansion of network infrastructure. Discuss the elements of your plan to use virtualization and network optimization techniques as well as remote monitoring to meet the needs of your organization.

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Network Virtualization and Optimization
Network virtualization and Optimization is an incredibly important component to efficiency and
scalability. Operating without solid network optimization, makes a business enterprise to be confronted
with a quickly building overhead and reduced efficiency. Network virtualization and optimization assists
a business enterprise in the making of most of its technology, improved security and cost reduction.
Below are the best practice recommendations for virtualization and optimization as discussed by Yasir
(Yasir, 2012):
- Prioritize the most important software applications – there exists software applications that are
optional but there are those that are mandatory. The mandatory and the most important
applications on the network require to be prioritized on the basis of system resources. Note that
applications that are not mandatory may still be preferred for organizational operations,
however, since they are not critical, they can still be executed slowly in an event of system
issues.
- Installation of software monitoring services – a system or application monitoring service will be
to tell when a system goes down or it is erratic in its operation. Such kind of systems track in an
effective manner as compared to manual monitoring strategies.
- Come up with a layered security system – security is a critical factor to any networked system.
However, cyber security has rendered it to nearly impossible to have an immune network
system. The solution for our networked system is having a layered security system. Such a
system places a business enterprise’ applications and assets under the strictest level of a
security.
Other recommendations are watching on the expansion, continued monitoring and reporting of packets
and creation of an all in one center as listed by Santana, (Santana, 2013). Furthermore, virtualization will
tremendously lower the cost infrastructure expansion.

References
Santana, G. (2013). Handbook of Research on the IoT, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Network.
Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
Yasir, Z. (2012). Future Mobile Communications: LTE Optimization and Mobile Network Virtualization.
Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media.