HP acquisitions heat up utility computing race.(Computing Strategies)

MSI, June, 2004

Utility computing--the idea that IT resources can be managed as needed--like heat or electricity--is now a dominant theme among data center vendors. IBM is the heaviest promoter, with its seemingly ubiquitous ads for on-demand computing. Hewlett-Packard (HP) trumpets the adaptive enterprise, while Sun Microsystems cans its utility computing initiative N1.

Names aside, users interested in utility computing need to examine whether their vendor has all the tools to make it work. The general consensus among industry analysts is that no vendor currently has the full set of tools to support the model. But there also seems to be general agreement that the recent acquisitions of two companies closed significant gaps in HP's utility computing portfolio. ...

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