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PAGE / NUMPAGES ? ? Exclusive Interview with Gartner Analyst Gene Phifer 1. To what extent is todays enterprise IT infrastructure adequate to support the business demands of tomorrow, and what should CIOs be sure to have in place? Most of the infrastructure in enterprises today is not capable of handling the business demands of tomorrow. Businesses are looking for agility, the ability to address new business opportunities, develop and launch new product offerings and ideas, and pursue new channels of interaction very rapidly. All too frequently, IT has been an impediment to business agility. IT systems and infrastructures have been very inflexible, and require months to years of evolution before allowing businesses to adopt new channels, new products and new strategies. Obviously we need to change that. We need to extend the way we have architectured infrastructures and applications, and the way we deploy technology in support of new business opportunities. That is going to require a new level of interoperability and new capabilities for integration and adoption of service oriented architectures in order to build and architect agile systems solutions. We will assemble and reassemble services as necessary to meet changing business objectives or business opportunities. In parallel, the technology investments that companies have already made must be preserved, while infrastructures must evolve to focus on service oriented capabilities. IT will utilize web services as one of the primary methods of interoperability, and will allow legacy applications to extend into the future in a way that offers flexibility. Hence, todays IT infrastructure will seriously change for tomorrow. 2. After the last two years of keep the lights on spending, what do you see as top IT strategies and spending priorities? The last couple of years have not been pretty from either an IT perspective or a vendor perspective. There has not been much money spent on technology – not nearly as much