Hewlett-Packard's approach to autonomic computing is embraced in its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, as illustrated in Figure 14.2. HP's vision for this approach is to provide tools, services, and products that deliver IT service levels that match the flow of real-time business activities or changes whenever needed—during excessive load times and when there are lulls in business activity. HP Adaptive Management offerings are comprised of products that enable IT management to implement an adaptive infrastructure that is agile and can be swiftly changed as the business needs change. There is a dynamic link between the IT infrastructure and the business process. They are closely aligned and mapped together.
The Adaptive Enterprise model is designed around the following policies.
All IT resources are shared, not isolated or compartmentalized into specific departments, business units, or lines of business, as they are today. The “silo” approaches of the past cannot be tolerated any further.
Business priorities are the determining factor for the allocation of IT resources.
Service levels and detailed system expectations are defined preciously, and this will drive the business services.
Corporations must respond in the on demand environment, given the global marketplace and the volatility of the economic landscape. HP responds to this challenge with the Adaptive Enterprise approach—establish an IT environment that can change quickly or respond to the market or clients. It should be able to deal with a number of demands such as:
Mergers and acquisitions, the integration of new businesses.
Dynamic changes in the global marketplace.
Totally new business models.
Fluid relationships with clients, partners, or suppliers.
The Adaptive Enterprise is designed to provide business benefits that include:
Sharing IT resources eliminates underutilized or overdeployed pockets of resources; it spreads the load and smooths out any components. Sharing resources across lines of business can help corporations become much more agile, respond to threats or opportunities quicker, and be more responsive to existing customers. Further, sharing IT resources will reduce the costs by simplifying the task of managing those resources. It means few managers are needed to manage.
The HP vision for the Adaptive Enterprise is build around the HP Darwin Reference Architecture, shown in Figure 14.2. This architecture includes the basic elements for an agile or adaptive infrastructure and includes HP software solutions, services, and products.
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