HP Expands OpenView For Adaptive Enterprise

Hewlett-Packard is introducing new software and services that provide customers with a wider window into their IT assets and processes, part of a move to offer systems management as a service.

The portfolio, rolling out this week, is the latest addition to its Adaptive Enterprise strategy. It addresses Business Management, IT Service Management, Application Management and Infrastructure Management.

Todd DeLaughter, vice
president and general manager of HP’s Management Software organization,
said
the suite will integrate with the outfit’s OpenView management
platform.

The idea is to help CIOs link business and IT for real-time management,
a
key ingredient for HP’s Adaptive Enterprise play, the executive said.

In the Business Management sector, HP OpenView Business Process Insight
is
software that monitors business processes and their relationships to
the
applications, and IT resources on which they depend, DeLaughter told
internetnews.com. For example, the software can provide the
dollar
value of a failed network or slow e-commerce response time, based on
financial data provided by the business.

IT Service Management assesses the impact of an IT event on
service-level
agreements, and then improves the service delivery
Application Management improves the performance, availability and
quality of
applications over the course of their lifecycle. Infrastructure
Management
watches over servers, storage, networking, PCs, printing and imaging
and
utility-based resources.

HP has long offered management products and services under its OpenView
platform, but the Palo Alto, Calif., systems vendor has shifted its focus to
help
CIOs drive out complexity in environments with disparate products, as
well
as the cost associated with managing those zones.

But HP has also struggled to define Adaptive Enterprise — its version
of
utility, on-demand computing or real-time computing — in a market
populated
by IBM, Computer Associates, Sun Microsystems and VERITAS Software. But
few
besides IBM have scored a lot of customer momentum, leaving the door
open
for HP.

Products and services such as management offerings — and the vendor’s
recently introduced service-oriented architecture (SOA) software — can
help
them do that.

To understand real-time network behavior without polling, the company
also
issued OpenView Route Analytics Management System software, which it said would identify and patch failures up to 80 percent faster. The software provides
such data as problem identification updates every 15 seconds.

The product manages the network as a service, not as IT infrastructure,
a
departure from previous approaches DeLaughter said would help HP stand
out
from management software rivals such as IBM , Computer
Associates and BMC .

The company has also fashioned Enterprise Management Services as part
of its
PartnerONE program to accelerate the creation of certified software
with
application vendors.