The company's vice president and general manager of HP OpenView, Todd DeLaughter, used the launch in Sydney today to push HP's "adaptive enterprise" computing philosophy -- the latest phenomenon also being talked up by rivals IBM and Computer Associates under various names, such as "on-demand" and "utility" computing.
Citing the words of a chief information officer, DeLaughter mused the perfect "adaptive enterprise" model would be comprised of a man, a network operations centre, and a dog. "The purpose of the dog is to make sure the man doesn't touch anything, and the man's job is to feed the dog," he joked.
While there is considerable hype surrounding "utility computing", DeLaughter said it's just a term used to describe a new approach. "For us this is not some revolutionary way of thinking, it's an evolution," he said. "I think the market's going to define what this term means... time will tell."
Three major releases were announced today, including a Business Impact Analysis tool, used to quantify losses caused by disruption to information systems, a downtime trouble-shooting package, and a resource manager used to avoid service level agreement violations.
