| HP unveils ‘Adaptive Enterprise’ strategy HP has launched a new strategy aimed at enabling companies to get more accountability, agility and a better return on investment from their IT environments. Termed ‘Adaptive Enterprise’, the strategy involves bundling existing products and services together with a suite of new solutions to create a consistent approach across the HP business. Details of the new services, software, solutions and an enterprise reference architecture designed to help companies plan, measure and manage change by creating better integration between business and IT functions, were unveiled yesterday. "We learned a lot about the role of IT as a business accelerator in the process of integrating two large companies," said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer. "We know from our customers that every organisation is managing change at some level. Therefore, it's fitting that we take our experience and combine it with HP services, solutions, technology and a roadmap to deliver it to our customers." At yesterday’s launch event, Fiorina and HP's enterprise team outlined the following: * Three new Adaptive Enterprise services, including the first set of ‘business agility metrics’, and new methodologies for designing and deploying application and network architectures to support constantly changing business needs. * New and enhanced software that incorporates technology advances to virtualise server environments for automated real-time resource utilisation based on business priorities and new self-healing solutions for HP OpenView that proactively resolve technical issues associated with enterprise management software. * HP's Darwin Reference Architecture: a framework for creating a business process-focused IT infrastructure designed to dynamically and automatically adjust to changes in the business, based on a set of design principles, industry-standard technologies and proven methodologies. * Upgraded HP ProLiant blade servers to create a more adaptive infrastructure and drive down cost and complexity. * Ten Adaptive Enterprise solutions that address critical customer needs in areas ranging from IT consolidation to enterprise integration, including hardware, software, services and relevant partnerships. Six of the solution sets will help customers simplify, deploy and manage the right infrastructure to enable business agility: enterprise integration; IT consolidation; management; virtualisation; business continuity; and security. The other four solution sets empower customers to better manage the sourcing, implementation and service lifecycle: on demand solutions; managed services; integrated support; and financing solutions. For more details on HP’s business continuity offerings click here.
•Date:
7th May 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
continuity
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