The Adaptive Enterprise: IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth (IT Best Practices)

The Adaptive Enterprise brings together powerful best-practice strategies for using today's loosely coupled, event-driven distributed e-Business technologies to manage change and enable growth. In conjunction with Intel's IT Best Practices Program, two leading consultants from the META Group show how to plan infrastructure that supports simpler and more cost-effective application development, deployment and integration. This end-to-end infrastructure planning guide gives IT practitioners practical techniques for "making everything work together." The book introduces a powerful five-step infrastructure planning process, covering platforms, patterns, and services. Learn how to transform IT infrastructure without disrupting existing applications and business functions; and rapidly address new challenges and opportunities as they arise. Identify key infrastructure patterns within your organization and derive reusable adaptive infrastructure services that improve reliability and performance while reducing time to market. Part of the Intel Press IT Best Practices Series, focused on identifying and sharing best-practice strategies for delivering Internet-based solutions that meet key business challenges. For every IT decision-maker and implementer.