HP acquisitions boost adaptive enterprise strategy

Hewlett-Packard has made further progress along what it calls its adaptive enterprise strategy with the acquisition of management software companies Novadigm and Consera Software.

Each company will help HP add automation capabilities across the enterprise IT environment, including storage devices, servers and databases.

"Management software is the next big frontier for IT," said Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, HP Adaptive Enterprise. "Consider over US$8 billion spent last year by the industry on mergers and acquisitions and IDC's projected worldwide management software revenues of $10.1 billion by 2007. It's clear that the race is on to deliver CIOs the automated, integrated management solutions they need to increase agility and capitalise on change.

"Novadigm and Consera will add powerful automation software to HP OpenView, enabling customers to flex IT with business demands. Together, they put repetitive, error-prone IT management tasks on cruise control and free up IT time to focus on innovation."

"Truly adaptive solutions must be capable of allocating infrastructure on a dynamic basis in response to changing patterns of utilisation," said Ronni Colville, Research Director, Gartner. "It's increasingly important for technology to be able to take automated action based on business needs to drive policy-based reprovisioning and reconfiguration of resources across servers, databases, storage devices, network devices, application and end-users."

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