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Bringing it all together
HP LOOKS TO CONVERGE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INTO HOLISTIC OFFERINGS
By Scott Ferguson has even more offerings itsservices—amajortheme nal infrastructure, while
IN LAS VEGAS to sell. And the spending running through this year’s keeping its core customers
Like other top-tier to expand its technology forum. up-to-date.
O E M s , H e w l e t t - portfolio is continuing, as In his keynote address Nina Buik, president of
Packard has been evidenced on the second June 18, CEO Mark Hurd Encompass, HP’s largest
growing its services day of the forum, when HP addressed the problem user group with 16,000
business for years, announced its acquisition HP has been dealing with members, said HP’s ex-and it is becoming an in- of SPI Dynamics, a maker as it has grown over the panding portfolio and addi-creasingly important and of Web application security years—moving beyond its tional services have led to
profitable part of the com- software. traditional roots as a hard- some confusion among
pany as revenues reach into Because of the number of ware company toward more members, although the
the billions of dollars. options HP now has to offer, software and services. It has group is giving the com-
When HP opened its the company is looking to been forced to think of new pany feedback. The goal,
Technology Forum & Expo reinvent the way it packages ways to tackle its own inter- Buik said, is to take con-here June 18, most of the cepts, such as HP’s adap-talks and breakout sessions HP as the model tive infrastructure technol- were dedicated to new offer- ogy, and spell out what the
ings—the company debuted In his keynote address, HP CEO Mark Hurd said the company technology will mean for
several green storage hard- will use its own data center consolidation project to show systems managers.
ware and software prod- customers what its technology can do for them. “It’s not just In a speech following
ucts—and the implementa- about green; it is also about efficiency,” Hurd said. Key points Hurd’s, Ann Livermore,
tion of technologies such as of the three-year consolidation project include: executive vice president of
virtualization. However, the Announced May 2006, it will reduce from 85 to six the num- HP’s Technology Solutions
Palo Alto, Calif., company ber of HP’s data centers Group, said the company
also is looking to reconfig- is working toward a model
ure how it handles services There will be three data centers, with mirrored disaster where its core products—
in the wake of its growth recovery facilities servers, storage and ser-
and acquisitions. HP’s global data center space will vices—will be leveraged to
I n t h e p a s t s e v e r a l drop from 500,000 square feet to 300,000 address any number of I T
years, HP has been buy- square feet issues and concerns. One of
ing up software companies, those, HP’s adaptive infra-including Mercury Interac- The number of servers will drop from structure technology, looks
tive, a $5.4 billion purchase
23,000 to 1,400; the number of applica- to give I T departments a
that expanded the compa- tions from
5,000 to 1,500 way to fully automate the
ny’s management software It will reduce HP’s power and cooling data center.
offerings. Now, after com- costs by half, enough to power Palo Alto Another offering, HP
panies such as Mercury and for a year Secure Advantage, which
Knightsbridge Solutions Source: e W the company unveiled June
EEK reporting
have been absorbed, HP [CONTINUED ON PAGE 14]
