HP buys data management services company
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Knightsbridge specializes in helping IT clients deploy technologies for business intelligence, data warehousing and data integration.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization. HP on Monday announced plans for new models in its midrange EVA series of disk storage arrays at the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas. The EVA 4100, 6100, and 8100, due later this year, feature what HP calls Dynamic Capacity Management. Typically, when a company buys new storage capacity, it apportions it to different programs or different business functions in the organization. It can lead to the false impression that the company has used up all its storage capacity. Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM), HP said, allows the storage manager of a company to assign capacity to various departments or functions as needed and allows the system to reduce capacity assigned to departments if they're not using it up at the rate they thought they would. This saves companies the cost of buying more storage capacity they may not need, said Mark Gonzalez, vice president of enterprise server and storage sales at HP. "Perhaps you don't have to buy as much storage as you had to before and because of that, you use less power, use less cooling and can delay your purchases," Gonzalez said. "What's the most expensive storage that you'll buy? The storage that you have to buy today." Gonzalez said the EVAs may carry a list price somewhere in the range of $35,000 to $40,000. HP offers DCM, what it also calls thin provisioning, in the high-end XP line of disk storage arrays it introduced in May. The availability of it on the EVA line will coincide with the launch of Microsoft's new Windows Server 2008 operating system, which is due out later this year. Besides assigning storage capacity more in line with actual use, the EVAs will utilize a Windows feature that can reduce the size of storage capacity already assigned and reassign it to another purpose. But storage provisioning is as much a problem of office politics as it is technology, said Andrew Reichman, a storage industry analyst with Forrester Research Inc. Software application administrators at companies ask for as much storage as they can get because it's difficult to add more space later. But storage administrators want to preserve storage capacity so they don't have to buy more storage capacity unnecessarily. In the back and forth of office politics, Reichman said, the software administrators tend to win these battles. But with DCM, which he thinks is more accurately called "adaptive provisioning," assigning and adjusting capacity is easier and better assures applications will get the storage they need but not more than they need, he said. "Adaptive provisioning is good for environments where you have good communications. Where the server admins and the applications admins say 'I agree to take less and will trust you to grow it for me as time goes so we use less resources,'" Reichman said. "In my experience those environments are few and far between." HP also announced it's introducing a new tape drive for data storage and its first tape storage device in a blade form factor.
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Hewlett-Packard said it will buy Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash to bulk up HPâs data-center software line.
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Logicalis, one of Hewlett-Packard&#39;s largest enterprise server and storage solution providers, Monday reached an agreement to acquire Solution Technology Inc.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it will pay $1.6 billion in cash to acquire Opsware Inc., a software company founded by Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen that helps companies lower the cost and complexity of running their data centers by automating certain management tasks.
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Yosemite Technologies, a provider of data protection software for servers, has acquired FileKeeper, which focuses on data protection software for desktop and laptop computers.
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Blog: The Web application security company is to become part of HP's Technology Solutions Group. SPI Dynamics' tech is already integrated with HP Quality Center software.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard plans to buy datacenter automation software vendor Opsware for about $1.6 billion.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire IT services company Knightsbridge Solutions Holding for an undisclosed sum. Knightsbridge helps to design IT architectures for managing large volumes of data. It specializes in helping clients to deploy technologies for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration. The company has 700 employees. Based in Chicago, it has offices in London and throughout the U.S. HP expects to close the deal in about 30 days subject to closing conditions. Knightsbridge will become part of its HP Services organization. HP recentlyÂ completed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive. OtherÂ recent HP acquisitions include OuterBay, which makes database archiving software.
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Newham Council has signed a $27m (Â£16m) 10-year deal with Hewlett-Packard to provide a Microsoft Windows and Exchange 2003-based IT infrastructure.
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(InfoWorld) - HP on Monday announced it has upgraded products in its service management portfolio to help customers expedite changes, automate software distribution and align IT processes with the best practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). At its HP Software Universe conference in Las Vegas, the company announced updated software and services that it says will help reduce manual error and maintain more good configurations across distributed systems. The company also introduced a product, HP Change Control Management Software, which incorporates a change advisory board -- recommended in ITIL -- into software. The software, built on technology acquired with Mercury Interactive, helps automate approvals processes and reduces the need for multiple change advisory meetings to push changes out to systems, industry watchers say. "This product can eliminate tasks that a change advisory board would typically have to do," says Evelyn Hubbert, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. Because the software incorporates Mercury technology with HP's focus on service management and ITIL best practices, Hubbert says, "HP has done more work than it has in the past at working across different divisions. The product is a significant step forward in integration." HP also announced upgrades to its HP Configuration Management Software, also built on acquired technology from Novadigm. This product picks up where the change-control product leaves off, HP says, by pushing out changes approved by the change advisory board to production systems. The vendor also says this software can help with rolling out virtualization software and migrating systems to Vista. Forrester's Hubbert says the product "closes the loop on rolling out changes" for customers and reveals HP's product plans to "trickle out" more automation in its software. "It is a real pain point for clients to see a change from initiation to conclusion. HP is offering another proof point in automation, but also addressing that pain point," Hubbert says. "The company is also doing a better job of aligning their products and building a better implementation road map." Last, HP announced its Best Practices for Service Center services, which help organizations accelerate the adoption of HP Service Center software and align internal IT-management processes with those if ITIL Version 2 as well as Version 3 of the best-practice framework. The software and services are available. HP did not disclose pricing information.
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(InfoWorld) - Major storage vendors reported double-digit sales growth in the third quarter with the exception of Hewlett-Packard Co., which suffered a double-digit decline. HP sales of external controller-based disk storage slumped by 11.9 percent from the year ago quarter to US$475 million in the three months that ended Sept. 30, according to a report out Tuesday from research firm Gartner Inc. HP trailed market share leader EMC Corp., whose 17.4 percent revenue gain to $954 million earned it a 25.5 percent market share. IBM Corp. ranked second with a 14.8 percent share, as its revenue grew 17.9 percent to $553.1 million. While HP held onto third place, its market share slipped to 12.7 percent from 15.5 percent in the third quarter of 2005. Dell Inc. ranked fourth with a 10.8 percent share and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. fifth with a 7.3 percent share. The storage vendor with the strongest growth was sixth-ranked Network Appliance Inc., which saw sales jump 20.4 percent to $272 million for a 7.3 percent share. Sun Microsystems Inc. trailed the pack with a 5.3 percent share. In the third quarter, Sun completed its first year of StorageTek ownership, which it acquired for $4.1 billion. Overall, the global market for disk storage grew 7.4 percent from the year ago quarter to $3.74 billion. HP aside, Gartner says the major vendors strengthened their place in the market in the third quarter through some consolidation and enhanced marketing efforts. HP Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd alluded to weak storage sales in a quarterly financial conference call with investment analysts Nov. 16. HP's storage sales grew only 1 percent in it's fiscal fourth quarter, which ended Oct. 31, the weakest of any of its product lines. "Our growth profile of our storage business is negatively impacted by our mix toward the declining tape market," Hurd told analysts. "We are not happy with our storage growth in the fourth quarter and we need to do a better job of driving top line momentum in the coming year."
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German software giant SAP AG is teaming with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to offer midmarket companies in the U.S. a hosted software offering that includes applications, maintenance, services, and support for a monthly fee.
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By Chuvala, Bob  Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Bristol Technology Inc. in Danbury for an undisclosed amount.
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HP said today it plans to buy business process monitoring specialist Bristol Technology to improve its presence in the BTO market.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced the industry's first easy-to-use storage systems that drive down cost and complexity for small and medium businesses (SMBs) grappling with the exponential growth of data.
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Blog: The Web application security company is to become part of HP?s Technology Solutions Group