Abstract: A system for exposing and extending existing IT capabilities as standard business services, while providing infrastructure services to an organization over a data network, has a group of configured agents. Each agent runs services that represent a certain entity on the organization's network and is responsible for controlling the functionality of the represented IT resource on the organization's network, while being a runtime engine for services that represent IT resources of the organization and a Peer-to-Peer topology layer for connecting between the agents, while exploiting the existing physical data channels of the data network.