Hewlett-Packard’s acquisitions of Peregrine Systems and AppIQ, announced last week, are designed to flesh out key pieces of
HP’s overarching Adaptive Enterprise strategy.
HP unveiled Adaptive Enterprise in May 2003 as a way to more tightly integrate its hardware, software, and services, laying
the groundwork for the eventual move to utility computing.
Judith Hurwitz, president of analysis firm Hurwitz & Associates, views HP’s Peregrine acquisition as a smart move.
“HP needs to continue to build out its platform in systems and application management,” Hurwitz said. “Asset management is
a key piece and is quite important for SOA.”
The purchase of AppIQ, a storage resource management software vendor, will expand HP’s StorageWorks division.
“It’s a fairly astute move by HP,” said Joe Clabby, vice president of servers and storage at Summit Strategies. “It gives
them more automated provisioning and virtualization capabilities.”
AppIQ’s software “tucks neatly” into HP’s Systems Insight Manager software, the company’s effort to provide a common management
user interface for its server and storage products, Clabby said.
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