HP Taps Denzel To Head Up Adaptive Enterprise Strategy, Completes Acquisitions

In addition, the Palo Alto, Calif., company said it had completed the acquisitions of Baltimore Technologies' SelectAccess identity management technology, and Talking Blocks, a privately held maker of web services management software. Both acquisitions add technology to HP's adaptive enterprise initiative.

The adaptive enterprise strategy refers to HP's push toward selling computer power much like a utility sells electricity. Competitors have similar strategies, but under different names. IBM calls it's approach on-demand computing, Microsoft has a dynamic systems initiative, and Sun Microsystems refers to N1.

Denzel, senior vice president of HP's Software Global Business Unit, will lead the new initiative, the company said.

In announcing the completion of the SelectAccess purchase, Denzel said it's "the next step in evolving our management software solutions as part of our Adaptive Enterprise strategy."

SelectAccess allows administrators to centrally control user access and enable single sign-on through a policy server that provides role-based authorization to network-based resources.

HP completed the acquisition of Talking Blocks on Sept. 18. The company's software provides a framework for a "service-oriented architecture," an emerging set of standards and technology for tying applications to provide a business process.

This story courtesy of TechWeb.