After Lee Aike "resigned", its strategy for HP to develop a cloud transformation has been highly concerned about the industry, whether it will be a pause in suspense. On October 18, Steve Dietch, HP's vice president of cloud computing infrastructure and solutions marketing, told the Huaxia times: "no matter who is the CEO, HP's cloud strategy will not change. So, HP'S former CEO Li Aike board "expelled" is clearly not because of cloud computing strategy transformation, the problem lies in the PC business.
Cloud strategy unchanged
On October 18, HP held a powerful conference on cloud computing and innovation in the server, storage and networking sectors in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region in Singapore. At the conference, HP announced new services and solutions based on its converged infrastructure to help service providers and enterprises deliver cloud services quickly.
On the same day, Dietrich told the "China Times" reporter, HP is actively layout the cloud, providing customers with $ 2 billion in financing options, stimulate cloud product sales.
As we all know, cloud computing is the former CEO of HP Li AI KE to HP transformation out of the core” prescription".
"Cloud computing and connectivity are playing a huge role in the world, not only changing the user experience, but also changing the way individuals, small businesses, and enterprises consume, deploy, and use information technology. Lee Aike said at the time.
Since then, HP has been heavily involved in cloud computing, including announcing that it will invest $ 2 billion to develop a new cloud computing plan to build its own developer platform. In June, HP opened its first Global Cloud Computing Solution Center in Tianjin. It is reported that the center is located in the Tianjin development zone, an area of about 3000 square meters, for those who seek to establish, use and run HP Cloud computing environment to provide users with hands-on experience. In August, HP bought Autonomy, the UK's second-largest software maker, for as much as $ 10 billion to expand its cloud capabilities.
But to the surprise of the industry, just when Lee Aike for HP to cloud computing strategy drastic transformation, his career fate has made a big joke. On September 24th, Hewlett-Packard suddenly announced that Lee Aike resigned as president and CEO, and withdrew from the board, by the former eBay Global CEO Meg Whitman took over.
In response to Mr. Lee's resignation, industry sources said he was“ostracized” by HP's board.
Reiterating the importance of the PC business
From the action of HP in the cloud computing strategy, Li Aike by HP Board "expulsion" is not the reason for the cloud. On October 13, two weeks after he announced his departure, hp and SAP jointly announced the signing of an agreement to combine HP's Cloud Platform with SAP's Customer Relationship Management Software (SAP CRM).
Apparently, Li Aike's cloud transformation has not been abandoned by HP. When Mr. Lee announced in August that he would buy Autonomy, the UK's second-largest software maker, he had said he would consider splitting up the company'S PC business, a point that led to a disagreement among HP executives.
"We have no intention to divest the PC business. Why should we give up the $ 43 billion PC business? This business is second to none in terms of profitability. Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lann made clear at the time that the focus was on giving up the PC.
On October 18, Dietrich stressed that now PC is still one of HP's business, and in any case, HP for the strategic business of cloud will not change.
"Personal PCs are part of HP's business and part of HP's cloud strategy, which involves connecting to the cloud strategy. Dietrich told the Huaxia Times reporter further explanation.
He stressed that because of the presence of the PC, making it possible to cover all the industrial chain of cloud computing. He said that many manufacturers are stressed that they can cover this industry chain, but HP is the only one to the entire industry chain all links are in their own hand's manufacturers, which include storage, servers, networks, software and so on.
HP global marketing director EJ Bodnar October 18 also revealed that the mainland China next year will become the world's largest data center market, and there are more than 20 cities have cloud computing plans, estimated in 2012 to 2014, the number of new data centers will grow exponentially each year.
According to Forrester Research, the global cloud computing market will grow from $ 40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $ 241 billion by 2020, with the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions particularly strong, with the pace of enterprise planning to integrate the cloud strategy even surpassing that of North America and Western Europe.
Clearly, HP does not want to give up the“cake " or even want to get one more piece, and how many of its business in the cloud under this strategy to revitalize synergies, maybe a true test for its new CEO Meg Whitman.