Infrastructure Transformation Subgroup

The Infrastructure Transformation Subgroup (ITS) of the Digital and Technology Network (DTN) is established to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise and promote inter-agency cooperation and collaboration on ICT infrastructure-related matters within the UN system.

The impact of cloud services will continue to be a dominant driver of change for ICT infrastructure and operations for the next several years. How the UN system can transform its ICT infrastructure to take advantage of this driver is a key focus area for the ITS. Cloud-specific areas of examination include:

•  The use of public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios for the UN system.
•  Optimizing workloads for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
•  Cloud migration, backup and disaster recovery (DR).
•  Cloud governance.
•  Cloud cost models.

In addition to cloud concerns, the interests of the ITS will include, but are not restricted to, the following areas:

•  Sharing of past successes / lessons learnt and exchanges on current priorities;
•  Using infrastructure enhancements to improve the speed of delivery;
•  Designing software-defined architectures;
•  Using provisioning and orchestration in support of automation and self-service
•  Using machine learning to enhance monitoring and predictive capabilities;
•  Sharing best practices related to identity, IT security engineering and operations, and compliance;
•  Evaluating tools that manage both data centre and cloud assets;
•  Collaborating on evaluation of new and proposed technologies and approaches;
•  Identifying areas for cost management and resource optimization;
•  Engaging leading vendors of common interest to share their vision, direction and product roadmaps;
•  Reviewing and advising on staffing and team structure models for ICT infrastructure teams within the UN system;
•  Recommending methods to expand the skill sets of infrastructure and operations practitioners within the UN system;
•  Finding partnership opportunities with private, public sector and academic institutions that support infrastructure transformation; and,
•  Providing updates to the DTN on transformational technologies and infrastructure trends of interest to the UN system.