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HP slaps an "updated" label on its adaptive enterprise vision
HP in 2003 unfolded its adaptive enterprise strategy, and today found it necessary to update the Silicon Valley press corps on its progress.
The adaptive enterprise some day will allow enterprises to enter a number of security, uptime and cost parameters, after which the system will automatically provision a new system. No knowledge about processors, operating systems or middleware required. Companies finally will be able to fire their IT staff.
The meeting took place at the company's headquarters in the former board room, next to the historic offices of co-founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard that have been vacant ever since they left.
Had the misters H. or P been there, they would have been appalled about the lack of progress.
Recently unveiled products such as the c-Class blade system and not so recent announcements such as the Tycoon research project were dusted off and covered in an "adaptive enterprise" sauce. And of course no enterprise IT product can exist these days without throwing in virtualization – a field where HP is relying on partners.
Big servers taking up little space are an essential part of a consolidated IT play, as is virtualization. The Tycoon technology will then allow companies to invoice departments for the resources they used.
There's nothing wrong with the bigger vision of the adaptive enterprise (for all we care you call it On Demand (IBM), N1 or Grid (Sun Microsystems). There is also no doubt that today's technologies get us closer to the big vision.
But HP didn't get beyond such generic statements. The printer market kept emphasising that it will be able to manage heterogeneous environments, but none of the reference customers that paraded in front of us actually had non-HP products in their (somewhat) adaptive enterprises.
HP today will sell you a flexible IT infrastructure that is more or less adaptive, as long as you are willing to buy a whole slew of HP servers and limit yourself to HP-approved partners and software.
Perhaps HP could become a little more adaptive itself.
Tags: HP, sun, ibm, adaptive enterprise, n1, on demand
July 22, 2006 at 12:16 AM | Permalink
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