DoSTOR analysis of the store on September 21: Hewlett-Packard this week announced the acquisition of a business enterprise storage management company AppIQ, through technical cooperation with a view to the rapid reconstruction of its storage portfolio.
acquisition ApplQ has not yet disclosed the price, but several sources told DoSTOR said that the price should be higher than 200,000,000 U.S. dollars. Hewlett-Packard is expected to be approximately 45 days of the end of this merger. AppIQ will be the HP Technology Solutions Group's StorageWorks sector.
On the same day, Hewlett-Packard also announced plans to 425,000,000 U.S. dollars to acquire IT asset management software company Peregrine Systems.
Although Peregrine does not sell storage software, HP's vice president of ILM, said FrankHarbist today, the two transactions are linked because they are suitable for integration of IT infrastructure monitoring and management of the overall strategy. Last month, EMC announced plans to enter the field of network resources management is to follow the same trend.
February this year, Hewlett-Packard agreed to a seven-year OEM agreement to resell the software AppIQ At the same time, the agreement also includes content in the future to cooperate in the development. From the beginning of May, Hewlett-Packard products in StorageEssentialSRM integrated AppIQ automatic configuration features, and look forward to next month's launch of fully integrated products.
February this year, HP will be automatically configured (Autoprovisioning) and AppIQ on the support of open standards as the most important features of AppIQ. Harbist repeatedly AppIQ on this evaluation. He referred to AppIQ's StorageAuthority suite, said: This is the best SRM (storage resource management software), which meet all the standards, from the previous passive surveillance into a proactive monitoring and management. Brbrbr automatic configuration (Autoprovisioning) can be According to allow users based on geography, business applications and other factors provided for in prior policy, formulate a suitable allocation of storage devices between SAN capacity. When the SAN by adding new equipment, which came into effect on the policy.
have OEM deal with AppIQ company also: HDS, LSILogic the company's Engenio sector, SGI, Sun. Harbist said HP hopes to continue these OEM deal.
of AppIQ for OEM model is working well, the company said at the end of July to have 250 customers, is the end of 2004, twice the number of customers. Company founder and chief technology officer Ashutosh said AppIQ hope that the end of this year to be profitable. He did not say whether or not there are other companies coveted AppIQ, but industry sources said Hitachi and Sun have been on the acquisition of the company expressed interest.
Harbist and Ashutosh have expressed the hope that as far as possible to retain AppIQ development team Staff, as well as most of the management team. Harbist said that during the transition period AppIQ CEO DaveLemont still maintain the original level, after the completion of the acquisition of Hewlett-Packard will be how Dave's decision. Hewlett-Packard
hope that the acquisition of SRM can bring new vitality revenue, according to IDC statistics, HP SRM-quarter earnings on a year-on-year reduction of 16.4 percent last year. Hewlett-Packard SRM of the total market share fell to 8.6 percent from 6.8 percent, behind EMC, Symantec and CA's.
since fallen to a record low last year, Hewlett-Packard's storage career by leaps and bounds this year. This year, HP upgraded its EVA midrange SAN platforms, and primarily through increased cooperation in OEM enterprise-class NAS, wide area network file services (WAFS), virtual tape library (VTL), data storage and archiving, as well as data protection and other fields. Hewlett-Packard Company with the cooperation of Microsoft, Asigra's enterprise business, OuterBay Technologies, PolyServe Inc., Riverbed Technology, Inc., Sepaton company. Although
competitors Hewlett-Packard said that the lack of cooperation with its strategic innovation, but more than one industry analyst praised the quick to make up for their lack of Hewlett-Packard.
TanejaGroup the ArunTaneja analyst said: HP has become very aggressive in the sense that many people, including myself, Hewlett-Packard and the pioneering spirit of the two words used to be antagonistic. Hewlett-Packard in 2023 experienced a setback after they have found Too many shortcomings, but in the first half of this year, Hewlett-Packard has begun to launch an attack across the board. Brbrbr