Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Edward W Kettler, Iii

Kas Kasravi

Reinier J Aerdts

Thomas L Hill

Edward M Reynolds

Randall F Mears

Jeffrey L Wacker

William H Phifer

Jean B Lehmann

William T Rhodes

Donna M Stemmer

William J Markham

A method, system, and computer program product for measuring and assessing an organization's business adaptability is provided. In one embodiment, a taxonomy comprising a hierarchical list of taxonomy indicators that captures organizational elements that can be used to measure an organization's responsiveness to change is created. The taxonomy indicators are industry specific. A set of weights associated with the elements of the taxonomy, indicating a relevant contribution of each element to an overall adaptability of an organization, is assigned. The set of weights are industry specific. An enterprise profile is created assigning a level of adaptability to each taxonomy indicator indicating where, in a range of scores from low to high, an enterprise rates relative to the relevant taxonomy indicator. An adaptability result of the organization from the weights, taxonomy, and enterprise profile is then calculated. The adaptability result provides a quantitative assessment of the organization's adaptability.

System and method for quantitative assessment of organizational adaptability

Apparatus, and an associated method, for selecting at which processing unit of a plurality of processing units positioned at a data center that a processing task is to be performed. Temperature sensors are positioned throughout the data center and associated with the individual ones of the processing units. Indications of sensed temperature levels are collected and monitored by a collector and monitor. The indications of the sensed temperatures are used both pursuant to cooling operations, controlled by a cooling controller, and pursuant to processing-task placement, determined by a workload placement controller.

Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting distribution of processing tasks at a multi-processor data center

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Plano, TX, United States of America

Edward W Kettler, Iii