CA And HP
Add To Their Virtual Computing Strategies
While we work on putting the
finishing touches on our Virtual Computing charts (our term for the
On Demand/Adaptive Enterprise/N1/Dynamic Systems Initiative/You Name
It/Systems Management+), one of our challenges is keeping up with
the market activity.
Two things are going on:
- Vendors in this market keep
adding new products to their portfolios, mainly by acquisition,
but sometimes by incorporating existing products with or without
extending their functionality and/or changing their names.
We keep adding anything we find.
After we publish them (Friday, we think), we’ll have a
schedule for updates/corrections/etc.
- New vendors are inserting
themselves into the market. We’re talking to these “new” vendors and plan to add
them to the charts over time.
CA and Veritas are at the top of the list.
Computer Associates
Computer Associates is a major
player in the systems management and infrastructure software
markets, so that made it obvious that they would play in the Virtual
Computing market. The only question was probably “when.” They have declared many of their existing products to be in
this space and have added the Sonar infrastructure detection and
management technology, which will be implemented across all of their
On Demand offerings. Now they are adding others.
The latest is a Web Services Management offering, based on
the purchase of Adjoin Solutions several months ago and recently
revealed. The Adjoin web site has disappeared, but if you’re curious
about what they did, you can find an excellent write up of the
company at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci874092,00.html
HP
We rarely cover personnel
announcements, but this seems pertinent.
HP has named Nora Denzel to head its Adaptive Enterprise
Strategy. HP has been adding products to its AE portfolio via
acquisition as well as reassigning a number of its systems
management and infrastructure products.
Together with rival IBM, it has one of the largest Virtual
Computing portfolios currently being offered.
At the same time, HP announced
that it has completed its acquisition of the SelectAccess assets of
Baltimore Technologies a UK-based provider of high-trust security
products. HP will integrate these identity management
technologies into their HP Adaptive Enterprise strategies and
software with the thought of enhancing secure network access to
enterprise resources.
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