IT Infrastructure Name: Institution: Course: Date: Introduction For the IT professionals planning for the best IT infrastructure, this comes with high amounts of pressure as they have to come up with an infrastructure that support high quality services delivery, proficient IT capabilities, human and system integration and high acceleration of the applications in terms of delivery, while managing the costs accrued for the same, during the setup and for the operations phase. Currently most of the IT leaders are pushed to edge by the ever growing systems integrations and capabilities that are relative to the speed of innovation in the sector and the ever growing business list of needs and functions (Gnanasambandam, Sprague & Huskins, 2015). As such IT managers are forced to contend with highly automated system needs built on open and new technologies like cloud computing. Planning for IT infrastructure is also specific to the business model and objectives to be achieved now an in the future (Hughes & Kaplan, 2015). At Crunchy the needs to integrate the system with applications, ability to network, use telecommunications and maintain high efficiency, competitiveness and effectiveness are high on the list. IT Infrastructure Plan