The very practices that help transform the physical habitat, could also work wonders for the enterprise IT environment, the San JOse, Calif-based company says.

And the way to ensure IT adheres to three Rs is to be found in three magic words: service oriented architecture (SOA).

SOA defines a software model in which loosely coupled software services respond to the requirements of business processes and software users. Resources are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation.