Six months after HP revealed its new computing strategy, a clear definition of 'Adaptive Enterprise' still remains somewhat elusive, HP CEO Carly Fiorina acknowledged on Tuesday. Fiorina, who spoke on a range of HP issues at Gartner's Symposium...
IBM's on-demand effort competes with Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive Enterprise idea and Sun Microsystems' N1 plan. On Wednesday, Palmisano gave his vision of what a company that has embraced on-demand principles would be like.
But with most product lines now settled down, the company has embarked on a major strategy called Adaptive Enterprise that includes all the company's divisions. Software, a crucial part of the Adaptive Enterprise work, had an operating loss of $46m.
IBM refers to the 'on-demand business' and HP talks about its 'adaptive infrastructure'. There are other terms such as 'utility IT', 'IT as a service' and 'agile enterprise'. The race is one to link IT delivery with business demand - but as yet...
Blackmore, a former Hewlett-Packard executive who masterminded the company's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, outlined Unisys' strategy for growth at a meeting in London on Wednesday. He said the enterprise services company is now focused on four core...
But Pascal Matzke, principal analyst at Forrester, said the IT "ecosystem" will move more and more towards delivering functionality as a service through SaaS, storage-on-demand and adaptive IT services, with the CIO becoming a "service broker".