HP invests in Web services management

HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina recently outlined several HP investments
and technologies to help customers address key management issues that may
inhibit the adoption of Web services. During her keynote address at the eighth
annual BEA eWorld user conference, Fiorina focused on the critical role Web
services management will play in overcoming IT complexity, unifying systems and
accelerating a return on IT investments.

HP also announced the creation of a dedicated Web Services Management team to
extend the HP OpenView software suite for simplified Web services management.
The team will lead HP’s efforts to help customers provision and manage Web
services with the choice and flexibility to adopt future innovations, including
a consistent management interface for J2EE and .NET components.

It will also continue HP’s active work in Web services standards, including
W3C, OASIS, Liberty Alliance, OGSA (Open Grid Service Architecture) and Web
Service Interoperability Organization (WS-I.org)

"Simply put, management is the next major barrier to mainstream Web
services adoption," says Fiorina. "As our customers have learned over
the past 20 years through trial and error, management cannot be an afterthought
in computing systems. It must be part of the design and deployment of IT
infrastructures.

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