IDC PlanScape: Infrastructure Architecture

IDC PlanScape Figure

• Figure: IDC PlanScape: Executive Summary of Infrastructure Architecture

Executive Summary

• Figure: IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure Framework

Why Is Infrastructure Architecture Important?

What Is Infrastructure Architecture?

Who Are the Key Stakeholders?

• How Can My Organization Take Advantage of Infrastructure Architecture?

• Characteristics of the Target Architecture

• Innovation

• Reusability

• Replaceability

• Purpose

• Getting Started

• Define the Service Influence and Control That the Infrastructure Architecture Needs to Enable

• Determine the Standards or Reference Points for the Infrastructure Architecture

• Form an Infrastructure Architecture and a Strategy Program

• Assess the Inventory

• Focus on Measurement and KPIs

• Table: Infrastructure Architecture KPIs

• Formulate the Infrastructure Architecture

• Socialize the Process and Results

• Prioritize Next Steps

• Implement

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