As we enter a new age in e-business - the on demand era - the ability to sense and respond to changing market conditions, customer demands or external threats will become one of the most important factors determining your company's success.

An on demand business requires an IT infrastructure that can respond on the fly to almost any imaginable change, repel threats and never go offline. In short, the infrastructure must provide an on demand operating environment.

Unfortunately, the past 40 years of IT evolution have left businesses with infrastructures that are exactly the opposite of such an operating environment: heterogeneous, complex and widely distributed. A new enterprise infrastructure is needed that integrates existing systems and delivers their longpromised business benefits.

Companies today are looking for ways to consolidate and optimize their IT resources. This IT consolidation is one of the first logical steps in designing a more rational, efficient and resilient infrastructure that can support the model of e-business on demand.™