Russell Daniels.

The article features Russell Daniels, chief technology officer and vice president of HP Software at Hewlett-Packard. He has a service-oriented perspective associated with applications, his flagship OpenView product. According to Daniels, the enterprise management category was viewed as network and systems monitoring. He argues that the enterprise management category should be viewed as a way to manage IT assets and services and measure their effectiveness in furthering an organization's business goals. The company's Adaptive Enterprise initiative was co-lead by Daniels. The said initiative combines virtualization with various datacenter automation technologies to form a malleable foundation for service-oriented IT.