HP's adaptive evangelist

摘要

Ask enterprise IT managers about HP software and the conversation could begin and end with OpenView, HP's network management platform. Nora Denzel plans to change that. In October, the 41-year-old executive became responsible for HP's $2.5 billion Adaptive Enterprise strategy which promises to deliver intelligent hardware, smart software and services that will dynamically allocate data center resources on demand. In her quest to make HP's software the management platform of choice for utility computing, Denzel faces competition from IBM, Microsoft and Sun ― and HP's own reputation. "Denzel has to overcome the perception of HP as a hardware vendor that treats software as an afterthought," says Rich Ptak, partner with Ptak, Noel & Associates.