HP’s Software Side
Being in the hardware industry for quite some time now, HP (Hewlett packard) has also started improving its software side. Presently it has a software business of $ 42 billion which makes them the sixth largest software business holders in the world. This is really a great success for this second largest hardware manufacturer. Recent announcements from HP were the Data center Products and the IT task automation product.
The HP Automated Operation 1.0 is the set of products which was launched earlier this week. These products will be part of what HP calls as “Strategic Focus” group. These products will be aimed in streamlining the IT side of an organization and reducing the risk. Broadly speaking, they can be classified as IT Service Management, Business Service Management and Business Service Automation. Last year HP has purchased Mercury for $ 4.5 billion, mercury is a software maker under whose banner they have developed some very good hit products like Mercury Quick Test Professional and many more...
Earlier this year, HP has also announced their new strategy about the next generation Data center products. The Linux community will be closely working with HP in this area. They have a plan to Virtualizes the present Data centers with their powerful hardware and software. This would be the same concept which was covered earlier on Technical Herald. In July this year, HP had a very aggressive acquisition strategy. They acquired Opsware at an estimated cost of $ 1.6 billion. Opsware is the software maker, they have developed softwares for automating Data center administrative tasks. Another acquisition was of a thin client maker Neoware, this was based at $ 214 billion. Neoware also designs virtualization softwares to ease the desktop management in an organization. By reading this, you might got an idea as to how HP is growing and this simply implies us to think in other direction which is “The Hardware sales doesn’t matters for HP”. But still there are very dashing server products from HP like the Blade Server, which is basicly used to virtualize your data center with either VMware or other virtualization software products offered by HP under the above mentioned acquisition.