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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

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Organic IT Can Deliver Big IT Cost Savings — And Business Gains
• Firms Should Buy Three Capabilities . . .
• Firms Must Upgrade Five Technologies

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Firms Must Update Standard Practices

WHAT IT MEANS

• IT And Business Units Will Reorganize
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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