HP move aggressively into converged data center space.
October 1st 2010 11:49
Business success requires IT flexibility and agility. It is an essential driver to execute business process innovation, and IT needs to flexible enough to accommodate any changes in the speed. Flexibility and agility in IT could only be achieved through modernization of company’s’ IT infrastructures. Today’s the need to modernize company’s IT infrastructures is clear as companies struggle with the rising costs and decreased business agility associated with legacy IT infrastructures. But what is often less clear is how to tackle the problem. Determining where and how to begin IT infrastructures modernization is a daunting task for a company.
To help companies overcome that challenges, HP must outline some strategy to deal with the company’s IT problems. They need to acquire technology to boost its software and services offerings, HP needs to make some innovations, and an aggressive acquisition campaign. So the company decided to launch a massive acquisition campaign, HP need to add something to its software and IT services. HP needs to transform the way it sells, provides IT services and introduces new products to the tech world, competition is tough, and the company need to fight back or else lost a market share. It recent acquisition of ArcSight, a leading vendor in the security information space is a strong indication that HP’s plans to improve its software offerings. Hp agreed to buy ArcSight a part of its overall strategy to bring better visibility into enterprises IT infrastructures. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year; it’s too expensive for HP-a massive $1.7Billion but it makes sense. It will bring better visibility, understanding, better context, better continuity and security into the design and development of applications. With the addition of ArcSight, HP is now well positioned to challenges competitors like Cisco, Dell, IBM and Oracle in the burgeoning converged data center space. HP got also plans to incorporate ArcSight’s products into its software and services offerings, which are being optimized to handle and secured large amount of data in the company’s IT infrastructures. ArcSight will play key role in HP. Security is ArcSight’s area of expertise and security is one of the most important issues in today’s business. Security was really a management problem and it was not s separate silo.
HP is wild and its buying spree continued. Last August the company agreed to acquire application security vendor Fortify software for an undisclosed sum, and agreed recently to pay a premium price-$2.3 Billion for data storage maker 3Par. The bid war for 3Par is the toughest in the history of the tech world. This is what happened really when two colliding giants battle for a piece of pie-a small company like 3Par. For days the two stubborn IT superpowers-HP and Dell have fought for control of 3Par, it’s a series of attack and counterattack. 3Par has become the battlefield for tech heavyweights like HP and Dell. The 10-days bidding war between two IT superpowers over a relatively small storage company has gone to the next level, I’ll say that it was of the fiercest battle between two tech giants, it’s like wolves vying for a piece of meat. The bid war ended and HP won that battle, it’s really tough for HP because HP takes only minutes to snap back with a higher offer after Dell takes three full days to tender its offer.
For HP, 3Par is considered a prime asset primarily for two reasons, first it’s clustered, utility-type architecture is tailor made for cloud systems that deliver software as services, and cloud storage systems are in huge demand at this time. The second reason is it could be 3Par’s Adaptive Optimization. Adaptive Optimization enable high end type storage systems, with this technology from 3Par HP could achieve an efficient distribution of data over the application life cycle, without needing intervention by a system administrator. That’s what really makes 3Par a hot property and a hard target for HP.
Then there’s Stratavia, HP recently purchased which specialize in database and application automation. The deal is the largest, security acquisition and the second largest in any market after 3Par. The acquisition of Stratavia will give HP a greater capability and more ammunitions as it competes with the likes of EMC and IBM. This could signal a turning point for HP’s security strategy. The companies that HP acquired will provide HP the technology it needs to fight competition, it could also pose a more serious challenges to those competitors likes Dell, IBM, EMC, and Oracle. The moves will give HP a strong foothold in the burgeoning converged data center space and enterprise software.
For more see:
Technology and the web.
To help companies overcome that challenges, HP must outline some strategy to deal with the company’s IT problems. They need to acquire technology to boost its software and services offerings, HP needs to make some innovations, and an aggressive acquisition campaign. So the company decided to launch a massive acquisition campaign, HP need to add something to its software and IT services. HP needs to transform the way it sells, provides IT services and introduces new products to the tech world, competition is tough, and the company need to fight back or else lost a market share. It recent acquisition of ArcSight, a leading vendor in the security information space is a strong indication that HP’s plans to improve its software offerings. Hp agreed to buy ArcSight a part of its overall strategy to bring better visibility into enterprises IT infrastructures. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year; it’s too expensive for HP-a massive $1.7Billion but it makes sense. It will bring better visibility, understanding, better context, better continuity and security into the design and development of applications. With the addition of ArcSight, HP is now well positioned to challenges competitors like Cisco, Dell, IBM and Oracle in the burgeoning converged data center space. HP got also plans to incorporate ArcSight’s products into its software and services offerings, which are being optimized to handle and secured large amount of data in the company’s IT infrastructures. ArcSight will play key role in HP. Security is ArcSight’s area of expertise and security is one of the most important issues in today’s business. Security was really a management problem and it was not s separate silo.
HP is wild and its buying spree continued. Last August the company agreed to acquire application security vendor Fortify software for an undisclosed sum, and agreed recently to pay a premium price-$2.3 Billion for data storage maker 3Par. The bid war for 3Par is the toughest in the history of the tech world. This is what happened really when two colliding giants battle for a piece of pie-a small company like 3Par. For days the two stubborn IT superpowers-HP and Dell have fought for control of 3Par, it’s a series of attack and counterattack. 3Par has become the battlefield for tech heavyweights like HP and Dell. The 10-days bidding war between two IT superpowers over a relatively small storage company has gone to the next level, I’ll say that it was of the fiercest battle between two tech giants, it’s like wolves vying for a piece of meat. The bid war ended and HP won that battle, it’s really tough for HP because HP takes only minutes to snap back with a higher offer after Dell takes three full days to tender its offer.
For HP, 3Par is considered a prime asset primarily for two reasons, first it’s clustered, utility-type architecture is tailor made for cloud systems that deliver software as services, and cloud storage systems are in huge demand at this time. The second reason is it could be 3Par’s Adaptive Optimization. Adaptive Optimization enable high end type storage systems, with this technology from 3Par HP could achieve an efficient distribution of data over the application life cycle, without needing intervention by a system administrator. That’s what really makes 3Par a hot property and a hard target for HP.
Then there’s Stratavia, HP recently purchased which specialize in database and application automation. The deal is the largest, security acquisition and the second largest in any market after 3Par. The acquisition of Stratavia will give HP a greater capability and more ammunitions as it competes with the likes of EMC and IBM. This could signal a turning point for HP’s security strategy. The companies that HP acquired will provide HP the technology it needs to fight competition, it could also pose a more serious challenges to those competitors likes Dell, IBM, EMC, and Oracle. The moves will give HP a strong foothold in the burgeoning converged data center space and enterprise software.
For more see:
Technology and the web.
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