HP sets up SOA shop in India
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has set up an SOA (service-oriented architecture) center in Bangalore, India, which will be one of five SOA centers run by HP worldwide.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services is setting up a 2,000-seat software development facility in Malaysia that will service its customers worldwide. The move is in line with the company's strategy to have services centers in multiple countries, both to address regional markets and to draw on local talent. Although staff costs in Malaysia are higher than in India, capital costs are far lower because of the country's better infrastructure, Virender Aggarwal, director and senior vice president of Satyamâs operations in the Asia Pacific and Middle East, said on Thursday. âWe donât have to invest in captive power generation for exampleâ, he said, referring to Indiaâs chronic power problems. The center is in Cyberjaya, about 50 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur, and will have 2,000 staff over the next four years, Satyam said. The company already has a delivery center in Kuala Lumpur with 150 staff. âWe have done large-scale hiring here, and we found the quality of staff to be very good,â Aggarwal said. As the cost of engineers and staff attrition rates in India go up, Satyamâs customers are keen on the company setting up operations in new locations, according to Aggarwal. Satyam can pick the best staff in Malaysia because few other companies have services operations there, he said. The company has enough of land in Cyberjaya to expand to a 5,000 seat facility, he added. Satyam, of Hyderabad, announced last month that it isÂ expanding its services operations in ChinaÂ to about 3,000 staff by 2008, from about 400 staff today. Besides addressing local and neighborhood markets like Japan and Hong Kong, the centers in China will service clients in North America. Other Indian outsourcing companies, like Infosys Technologies and Wipro, are alsoÂ setting up operations in other countries, particularly China and Eastern Europe, with an eye to the local and neighboring markets. Satyam is positioning China as an alternative offshore location to India, as its staff requirements go up, Raghavendra Tripathi, Satyamâs country head for China, said last month. Satyam had about 35,000 staff at the end of September, and most of these are based in India.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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The very image of success HP is putting its mouth where its money is by offering 2,300 of its key account customers a printer consultancy service.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co., aiming to beef up its erratic enterprise computing business with new products, said Monday it is launching new high-end and mid-range server-computers and related software and services early this week.
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HP is replacing its over-ambitious HP/UX utility data centre (UDC) service with a business automation module for OpenView, which it says will let companies be more flexible.
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PALO ALTO, Calif.  -- Computer and printer company Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it will buy data center automation software company Opsware Inc. for about $1.6 billion.
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Indian outsourcing companies are hiring workers and opening offices in other developing countries.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard&#160;introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries.
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Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell business personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. under the Hitachi brand in Japan.
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Indiaâs business providing software and services to companies outside its borders will grow a healthy 26 to 29 percent this year, the country's main trade association for that sector said Monday.
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Building on last year's acquisition of Mercury Interactive, Hewlett-Packard this week rolled out a slew of new business optimization products and services at its Software Universe conference in Las Vegas.
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The model behind SAP's SOA The close relationship between HP and SAP, which led to the joint announcement of the latter's Enterprise SOA effort, has spawned a new applications development and deployment lifecycle model from HP's Bristol Labs â where much of the development work for SAP was carried out.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) have formed an industry group to promote open standards-based systems for enterprise-level grid computing.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced on Monday that it has formed a new division within its Enterprise Storage and Servers Group chartered with unifying the company's blade system development efforts.
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday agreed to acquire a Middle East systems integrator with the aim to expand its services presence in the region.The acquisition of Atos Origin Middle East, in Manama, Bahrain, will boost HP&#39;s services presence in the region&#39;s public sector and oil and gas segments, an HP spokeswoman said. It also enhances HP&#39;s services capabilities in the consulting and integration of SAP projects in the Middle East.Since AOME is privately held, financial information hasn&#39;t been released, the HP spokeswoman said. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of November.AOME is not related to Atos Origin, another systems integration company based in France, the HP spokeswoman said.AOME has 450 employees with a presence in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Qatar. The employees will be integrated into HP&#39;s Middle East and Africa subregion services business, said Anette Nachbar, an HP spokeswoman, in an e-mail statement.With the acquisition, HP will get access to a large AOME customer base that includes oil giant Saudi Arabian Oil and telecom giant Saudi Telecom, Nachbar said. Services offered by AOME include enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, enterprise content management, and supply chain management.The acquisition will also boost HP&#39;s ability to offer consistent customer experience for SAP installations worldwide, Nachbar said.&quot;SAP-related services are a core element of HP Services&#39; consulting and integration capabilities and growth strategy, and we are focused on growing that business,&quot; Nachbar said.HP and SAP already have a deep relationship at business, research and development, and engineering levels dating back 18 years. Earlier this year HP announced services for large customers moving to new installations supporting SAP&#39;s Enterprise SOA approach to IT.
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(InfoWorld) - General Electric has selected Indian outsourcing company HCL Technologies to set up and operate GE's development centers in India and China. HCL, of Noida, near Delhi, will set up and operate the centers over three years, HCL said on Monday. It declined to give specifics, but such centers often develop software for use internally by companies. Many multinational companies have tapped Indian expertise for setting up development centers, hiring staff and managing these centers. Under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, for example, the Indian partner sets up the facility, hires staff, and manages the development work for the foreign company until it decided to make the operation its own subsidiary. British insurance company AvivaÂ announced last month that by January 2008 it will move over 5,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) staff from Indian service providers to Aviva Global Services, its offshore division in India. The company had executed BOT agreements with its suppliers. GE, of Fairfield, Connecticut, already outsources software development to a number of Indian outsourcing companies, including Tata Consultancy Services and Satyam Computer Services.
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HP is announcing on Monday SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.Also on Monday, HP is expanding its GIF (Governance Interoperability Framework), which features specifications for governance interoperability and deepens the company's support for heterogeneous environments.Monday's announcements include a new release of HP SOA Systinet software for design and runtime governance of SOA services and services lifecycle management via an enhanced integration with HP SOA Manager."The key thing here is we've enhanced these two products so you have integrated design time and runtime governance," said Ian Bruce, HP SOA marketing manager. Design time governance covers issues around developing and deploying services as well as discovery; runtime governance entails dynamic invocation and discovery and factors like policy management and enforcement.HP SOA Systinet enables developers to check services against policies through an Eclipse-based policy validation plug-in to ensure that services conform to requirements before being published. The software also supports significantly enhanced graphical navigation, advanced reporting, searching, and expanded lifecycle support.HP's new HP SOA Registry Foundation software, meanwhile, is designed for ISVs as a standards-based way to publish and discover SOA services and artifacts. It can be embedded in packages applications.Through the new HP Validation and Implementation Service for SOA Governance, HP consultants can help customers validate SOA services by implementing a governance model using HP Systinet software. The service is intended to help predict and optimize performance of SOA applications and infrastructure. An HP Validation Service for SOA Quality, meanwhile, establishes processes for managing the business risk of SOA-enabled services, HP said.Additionally, HP is introducing services to install and configure HP SOA Systinet and HP SOA Manager to help customers get a quicker return on investment. Also being offered are new SOA education and SOA training courses.The company is also announcing an expansion of its HP Governance GIF, designed to simplify the exchange of information between HP SOA Systinet software, acting as a system of record, and third-party technologies. Ten additional partners are joining, including Active Endpoints, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, JackBe, Layer 7 Technologies, LogicLibrary, Nexaweb, Oracle, Sonoa Systems, and Vordel.HP also will make GIF specifications available at hp.com and Wikipedia. GIF partner support is being expanded as well.