IBM PK HP: How is cloud strategy different?

Hewlett-Packard and IBM have recently announced new cloud computing initiatives, and we can see how these two companies differ in their cloud computing strategies and help us see the difference in cloud computing depicted by the new CEOs of the two firms.

In corporate strategy, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have one thing in common, that is, the choice of cloud computing as their key battleground IBM a decade ago, Hewlett-Packard began a substantial transformation, merging the PC and print business to complete the reorganization. Light from this point of view, I think IBM's strategic decision-making is quite forward-looking, we will be in this "decade" after five years of IBM's real power, and Hewlett-Packard's focus is mainly on the tactical rather than strategic, this business consolidation can be seen as the new CEO's technical capabilities as the center of the company's strategic direction adjustment.

Of course, this article does not want to compare the IBM and HP Cloud strategy is superior, but just want to talk about their differences in the cloud strategy.

HP's Hybrid Cloud

Often, one of the main goals of an external CEO is to change the companies they manage to better reflect their technical advantages. One of the backgrounds of Whitman's ebay is to use cloud computing services to tap into the target customer base, not hardware, hardware, or traditional IT services. And HP's hybrid cloud has joined the public cloud in traditional hardware solutions, which is what Whitman excels at. HP's hybrid cloud reflects the current critical it needs for public cloud services. Public cloud services are able to meet corporate security and regulatory requirements, which is also Whitman's core competence area. It also shows Whitman's firm and deep understanding of the new strategy. Whitman depicts cloud computing as her own cloud computing, the cloud she can control.

Whitman's new move is a tactical strategy, but it does not mean that it is not forward-looking. Because we see Google Amazon and other companies have started to join the mixed cloud market, while Yahoo and other more companies are also likely to enter the market, the addition of these manufacturers to HP into the mixed cloud market to reduce the resistance. So HP's entry into the cloud is an offensive and defensive move, taking into account Whitman's previous achievements in the field, and believes that the tactic will bring HP a huge benefit in the short term.

IBM Expert Integration System

In fact, IBM is much better than HP, but this hundred years the company has been working very successfully, the new CEO is trained to run the current IBM. At the same time, IBM has been focused on maintaining a large number of research and development, is currently the leader in artificial intelligence technology. IBM new initiative IBM Expert Integration System, this product reflects IBM's strategic thinking on cloud computing. IBM expert Integration System in order to build an intelligent system, over time, the system will reach the software and all related hardware fully automatic configuration, and can even intelligent optimization solution.

The value of this strategy is that these systems can accomplish automatic learning and adaptation over time. Organizations will see faster implementation times, fewer administrator workloads, and continuous optimization of related hardware, network, and storage resources. While the future is beautiful, the intelligence of these systems takes time.

In my view, IBM's new initiative is more strategic than HP because he will continue to improve the competitive edge for IBM.

Comparison: HP and IBM

HP's Hybrid cloud is a goal in itself, designed to address critical IT requirements and meet the needs of the enterprise for resource access, policy, and pre-installed systems. This is a highly tactical move and is likely to bring significant value to HP because it is the first product that Whitman led HP.

IBM's expert Integration System also has similar preset hardware, but it is the path to intelligent resources that help organizations meet the needs of the system administrator and the time required to train administrators. In recent years, IBM has been a chip in the field of artificial intelligence, and its ongoing research and development investments in the field of intelligent systems have highlighted IBM's stability.

HP and IBM's current move to optimize their resources to make a normal sound, but the result is very different, HP from the current public cloud services into the enterprise market, IBM jumped into the intelligent system to dominate the future, more ambitious. Perhaps in the future they will release different strategies, but for now, the two have their own choice of cloud computing, in the end it is better to wait for users to judge.