Hp whitepaper

Building an adaptive enterprise
Linking business and IT

Table of contents
Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................... 2 The role of IT in building an adaptive enterprise ............................................................................................... 3 HP’s Darwin Reference Architecture................................................................................................................. 5 The scope of the architecture .......................................................................................................................... 9 Addressing challenges at the IT and business level .......................................................................................... 10 The key components of the architecture.......................................................................................................... 12 Business processes ............................................................................................................................ 12 Applications ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Infrastructure services ......................................................................................................................... 13 Virtualized resources ......................................................................................................................... 13 Management software ....................................................................................................................... 14 Getting started............................................................................................................................................ 15 Measure and assess