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Page | Brief description | Maturity |
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Access Aggregation | Access Aggregation is a logical infrastructure function that performs the tasks required to group multiple Access Conditioning instances. | Access Aggregation |
Access Conditioning | Access Conditioning handles tasks that the infrastructure architect associates with obtaining access to an infrastructure facility. | Access Conditioning |
Alerting | Alerting serves to notify clients of, and/or trigger other services/functions on, certain predefined conditions or events. | Alerting |
Application Engine | This function offers a run-time environment for applications. | Application Engine |
Archiving | This function provides preservation with retention policies as add-on to another storage function. | Archiving |
Caching | This function offers to hold collections of data that are duplicated from elsewhere, or buffer data in transit. | Caching |
Configuration Register | The Configuration Register function retains sets of configuration parameters for one or more IT facilities. | Configuration Register |
Configuration Retrieval | This function collects a service or (sub)system's configuration, and sends it to a consumer. | Configuration Retrieval |
Connection Handling | This function covers all behaviour associated with the management of one end of a communication session. | Connection Handling |
Content Handling | The Content Handling function provides intelligence to manage and manipulate digital content in an automated fashion. | Content Handling |
Controlling | Function that can change a facility's actual behaviour, the way it is configured. | Controlling |
Data Engine | This function offers the ability to process strictly structured data. | Data Engine |
Data Replication | This function aims to replicate stored data that resides in one (logical or physical) storage location to another one. | Data Replication |
Data Scanning | The Data Scanning function scans through data searching for certain characteristics, and taking actions upon finding them. | Data Scanning |
Data State Preservation | This function aims to preserve data that resides in a particular (logical or physical) location in the state that it is at a specific point in time. | Data State Preservation |
Deploying | The Deploying function can automatically install and configure (software) objects on a specified (remote) location. | Deploying |
Distribution | Distribution routes incoming data to one or more destinations. | Distribution |
Encryption | This function takes care of the encryption and/or decryption of data. | Encryption |
File Engine | This function handles storage, retrieval and manipulation of loosely structured data. | File Engine |
Filtering | The Filtering function scans through data, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing it on or not. | Filtering |
Header Modification | This Generic Function enables message exchange between senders and receivers that use different messaging protocols/encapsulations. | Header Modification |
Identity Store | This function offers to store digital identities together with information that can serve as credentials. | Identity Store |
Identity Validation | The Identity Validation function offers the ability to validate a digital identity. | Identity Validation |
Input | This function provides the possibility to translate physical information into digital information for use in IT facilities | Input |
Interconnection | An Interconnection function offers to transport data over relatively long distances | Interconnection |
Load Balancing | The Load Balancing functionality accepts data en route, and intelligently directs it to travel to one of several destinations. | Load Balancing |
Logging | This function provides a (logical) location where logs can be written and consulted, and the ability to do so. | Logging |
Message Distribution | This function offers to direct messages between and/or within instances of the Message Handling facility. | Message Distribution |
Message Engine | This function can receive, process and/or send messages. | Message Engine |
Message Filtering | The Message Filtering function checks message handling transactions, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing messages on or not. | Message Filtering |
Message Formatting | This function is used to format messages for exchange between a facility and a message handling service. | Message Formatting |
Message Responding | The Message Responding function provides feedback to senders regarding message delivery failures and/or recipient status. | Message Responding |
Message Store | This function preserves and organizes digital messages. | Message Store |
Message Transformation | Converts/changes content of a message based on predefined rules during exchange. | Message Transformation |
Name Resolution | The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses. | Name Resolution |
Name Resolution | The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses. | Name Resolution |
Output | This function conveys digital information for use in the physical world, by converting digital information into events and/or physical information. | Output |
Permission Register | This function offers a means to store and publish permissions (technical representations of business rules about infrastructural actions like reading or writing information). | Permission Register |
Permission Validation | This function offers the ability to decide on allowing or disallowing a proposed action by a digital identity on a specified resource. | Permission Validation |
Presentation Aggregation | This function provides a single point of access to a variety of information and/or applications. | Presentation Aggregation |
Presentation Engine | This function processes input to and output from an infrastructure facility. | Presentation Engine |
Queuing | Provides the ability to process traffic based various queuing policies. | Queuing |
Raw Retention | Function that handles storing/retrieving/updating/deleting unstructured data such as bits and bytes. | Raw Retention |
Reduction | This function encodes data using fewer bits than the original representation, and/or restores it to its original form if so requested. | Reduction |
Reporting | A Reporting function can take data from a connected source, process it, and then deliver focused, salient content to its clients. | Reporting |
Restore | Function that restores a secondary copy of data to the original, or to an alternative, location. | Restore |
Retention Engine | This function offers intelligent handling of data at the "unstructured data" abstraction level. | Retention Engine |
Rules Engine | This function can have the infrastructure perform actions based on rules. | Rules Engine |
Scheduling | This Function provides control over tasks, based on schedules, events, triggers, and other control information. | Scheduling |
State Lookup | Informing its user of the state of some object, system, or (infrastructure) facility. | State Lookup |