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Systems Insight Manager user Subhash Tantry, executive vice president of operations, engineering and customer care for CenterBeam Inc., in San Jose, Calif., said the merged tool streamlines the user interface and is more extensible. Still, Tantry said the biggest challenge HP faces in its Adaptive Enterprise strategy is in making applications—not hardware or operating systems—work on demand.
"The premise of utility computing is to make computing fungible—like electricity that can be transferred from one city to another," Tantry said. "From a hardware and operating system perspective, you can make it fungible more so than from an application perspective."
