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May 18, 2004

Organic IT 2004: Cut IT Costs, Speed Up Business

The Architecture Behind Grid, Utility, On Demand, And Adaptive Technologies

by Frank E. Gillett

with Galen Schreck, Laura Koetzle, Richard Fichera, Thomas Powell, Stephan Wenninger


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Organic IT, Forrester's vision for next-generation data center architecture, offers firms massive IT cost savings and business agility — if they can get past the confusion of ideas and offerings. IT executives must deploy technology for virtualization, automation, and self-management, while implementing infrastructure best practices of standardization, abstraction, and integration. Forrester's Organic IT vision now includes new Organic Management capabilities, multiple innovations across five infrastructure categories, and key prerequisites necessary to get to Organic IT.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemOrganic IT Can Deliver Big IT Cost Savings — And Business Gains

itemBut Industry Ideas And Offerings Are Confusing

itemFirms Should Buy Three Capabilities . . .

item. . . And Implement Three Best Practices

itemFirms Must Upgrade Five Technologies

itemSoftware: Web Services And Composite Apps Enable Business Services

itemServers: Virtualized Processing Shares And Maximizes Computing Capacity

itemStorage: Automated Management And Virtualized Disks Optimize Storage

itemNetworks: Automated, Virtualized LANs And WANs Simplify And Speed Networks

itemManagement: The Fabric Operating System Powers Organic Management

RECOMMENDATIONS

itemFirms Must Update Standard Practices

WHAT IT MEANS

itemIT And Business Units Will Reorganize

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester surveyed 149 user companies and interviewed 21 vendors, including: Cassatt, Computer Associates, DataSynapse, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, VMware, and VIEO.

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