Benefits of the HP Darwin Reference Architecture

While this architecture tightens theintegration and synchronization between IT resources and business processes, it also delivers the interoperability needed to support requirements for ongoing change in a new infrastructure ecosystem.

An adaptive enterprise with integrated and shared computing resources reduces operational costs by simplifying the task of management and by ensuring the greatest level of utilization of those resources.

In this new ecosystem, resources are used more efficiently, accessed as needed in a simplified manner that increases the productivity of individuals and the collective enterprise.

The flexibility of an adaptive enterprise provides greater deployment options for the delivery of new business systems and helps reduce time to market.

For example, to help a parts manufacturer deliver a new, revenue-producing, customer-facing e-business system, an HP approach can provide an assessment of how to best leverage past investments in diverse technologies to deliver a streamlined, high-performance solution that is secure, simple to manage, and, for customers, simple to operate.

Based on business and agility requirements along with IT configurations and capabilities, a combination of approaches can be taken to support the business.

For instance, application integration can help blend information and procedures from unique systems such as order entry, shipping, and billing. And, disparate, low-powered application servers can be consolidated into a single high-performance server that simplifies management and ensures the fastest performance possible to the customers.

The HP Darwin Reference Architecture ensures that the solution tightly aligns with the agility requirements of business and IT. The distinct differences in the relationships between IT and business in each corporation require maximum flexibility in the plan that moves them toward an ultimate adaptive enterprise.

The HP Darwin Reference Architecture simplifies the infrastructure over time as it develops in a horizontal manner that enables IT to upgrade its response to change while delivering increased agility in the areas most needed by the business.

As it expands through the enterprise, the new infrastructure reduces risk and provides measurable results that allow for increased utilization of technologies, systems, and applications that will make the most sense
for each business.

This approach recognizes that the starting points for organizations will vary widely, because each combination of enterprise business and IT relationships is unique. In response, HP's assessment, strategy, and architecture services effectively customize solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise.

The benefits delivered by the Adaptive Enterprise include:


• Improved total cost of ownership - An adaptive infrastructure optimizes IT resources, reducing the cost of infrastructure management and enabling more choices that can lower cost of ownership.


• Increased business agility - With an adaptive infrastructure, organizations will be able to identify and quickly respond to challenges and opportunities and to quickly adapt to changing business models, processes, and market demands, helping them to outperform and assert change on the competition.


• Reduced risk - By simplifying and streamlining the technology environment, an adaptive infrastructure enables a more successful deployment of new solutions and supports business changes-more responsively, with less risk.


• Improved quality of service - An adaptive infrastructure enables the CIO to confidently establish and meet increasingly aggressive service-level agreements, assuring appropriate levels of availability, response
time, and performance.