Production Environment

Does anyone know what a Production Environment mean in CICSO networking?

And suppose production networks are the same thing.

Think I know but not totally sure

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stuh84

A production environment generally means a live network, something which you shouldn't be messing around with during the day.

A test or development environment is test equipment which generally doesn't have any live data going across it, so can be changed at any time.

Bolton07

What does a live network mean?

viper75

Bolton07 wrote: »

What does a live network mean?

Samething...production and live mean the samething. In other words; whatever you do will and can effect the entire Corp. network.

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Back to the topic at hand:

Live or production environment - A controlled environment used to deliver service to customers.

Development environment - An environment used to create or modify services delivered to customers.

These are in my own words, but heavily influenced by standard ITIL definitions.

MS

MosGuy

Here's a few more formal definitions of "production environment"

- Where an application or system resides that hosts actual / real data (as opposed to test data) or is available on a publicly accessible network or server.

- Comprises the applications and systems, and supporting systems infrastructure, that the end users and the customers of an organization access and use on an operational basis to execute their business processes and transactions.

Basically you can think of it as: anything that causes direct or indirect financial losses to the business if it experiences service degradation/loss. That's why in an ideal situation, test labs are used which are completely isolated that can't cause any issues/downtime.

As viper75 mentioned, live network is typically just another way of referring to the same thing.