HP changing to BP

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK in HP there is a new orthodoxy. And that orthodoxy is Broadest Portfolio. Yesterday Executive VP Anne Livermore said HP is not IBM because HP’s software offering is management based and it offered a much broader portfolio than its rival.

HP announced a range of strangely named services. First there’s the HP Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service server. Hosted services in an HP run data centre. Then there’s HP Operations Orchestration enhancements, described as “new integrations extend comprehensive automations across all physical and virtual infrastructures. HP Data centre virtualisation services is an enhancement of its virtualisation portfolio.

HP’s critical facilities services helps design data centres and its consolidation services (in which it has the “overall biggest footprint of technologies“) aims to cut the number of them. Finally HP says that it has the broadest, most integrated portfolio of green-focused technologies and services because climate change needs a holistic approach that should be addressed by a broad portfolio.

In hardware it announced its addition of a Quad Core AMD Opteron-based Proliant server. Running Itanium in its high-end Integrity Servers meant it had a much broader portfolio of kit.

In virtualisation HP says it will work closely with Citrix, Vmware, Microsoft and whoever else has a hypervisor, thus offering the broadest portfolio of virtualisation vendors. HP is quick to point out that, although it launched something called Insight Dynamic VSE yesterday, this is virtualisation management for physical and virtual servers, not a competitor to Vmware’s ESX. Though it also said that it would use its own virtual machine in the Integrity server tool set.

In Linux it claims to be the number-one provider of Linux servers offering the broadest portfolio of Linux.

All in all a very broad portfolio. µ