HP Transition Cloud computing lost its chance IBM has come to "fruit picking"

Hewlett-Packard, on the one hand, says it wants to divest PCs, tablets and smartphones, and is prepared to take 10.3 billion of billions of dollars to buy autonomy, a cloud-computing provider. Along with the strategic slogan for software transformation, HP has been speeding up the path of IBM and is betting on cloud computing. However, the industry is concerned that the printing business has been unable to provide sufficient financial support for its cloud computing strategy at a time when Hewlett-Packard has invested heavily in value-added software and services, and that it will take too long for the company to transform its cloud computing, causing confusion. "It will be a very long process and IBM has spent ten years," said Wang Shengai, general manager of IBM's China Cloud computing division, when it comes to the financial returns for HP's transition and calculation.

IBM, the earliest to transform software and services, has ushered in the "harvest" of cloud computing. The reporter learned from yesterday's "IBM Cloud Computing Summit" held in Shanghai that IBM's 2010 cloud computing revenue doubled from 2009 to 1 billion Dollar club.

HP Betting on cloud computing

Cloud computing is the general trend, attracting almost all the IT giants to come here for gold. Hewlett-Packard intends to divest its consumer PC business and spend huge sums to buy autonom y, the cloud-computing provider, to emulate IBM and transform its more profitable software and services. And the booming cloud computing becomes the opportunity for HP's transformation.

Since taking office last November, HP CEO Apotheker has been signalling to the outside world that it intends to build HP into a cloud-based service company. After announcing plans to divest the PC business and plan to buy autonomy, Apotheker also vowed to take vigorous steps to expand operations such as cloud computing, and to further challenge Oracle and IBM in more profitable products, mainly for corporate customers.

However, the pace of HP's cloud computing strategy is being questioned because it is too slow. More crucially, the cloud computing era, the real core competitiveness, embodied in software and integration, IB M, Google, Oracle and other companies in the field of cloud computing in the forefront of the industry, because they have the advantage of software and integration. And for the hardware of HP, there is no perfect enterprise-class hardware and software products support, its transformation to the cloud computing is difficult.

Hewlett-Packard was also aware of its own short board, so last week HP made a startling decision: to divest its PC business and expand its "soft power" with a 10.3 billion dollar takeover of Auton-om y. However, HP's rush to divest PCs, tablets, smartphones and the lack of a well-planned retreat has left consumers worried about HP's mess, and a sky-high takeover will deplete HP's cash reserves in the short term. In the past two years, HP has invested 16 billion of dollars in four super deals. "They [HP] are continuing to spend more and more money, trying to buy the next big thing, but not realizing that they are totally different," writes MarketWatch, a columnist for American media. ”

Lee Ai's vision is to enhance the cohesion of HP's business, hoping that HP will play an important role in the era of cloud computing, but after the loss of the Web operating system and PC business, his plan seems to have been frustrated. The industry is worried about whether HP can maintain the cohesion of its core business.

IBM enters cloud computing early blue Sea

The reporter learned from yesterday's "2011IBM Cloud Computing Summit Forum" in Shanghai that 2010, cloud computing in the global rapid growth last year, the global cloud services market size of 44.3 billion U.S. dollars, the cloud component market size reached 10.8 billion U.S. dollars. Last year alone there were 19 million public cloud users, and 80% of the world's 500-strong users were already using cloud computing.

The booming global cloud computing market has made IBM and other pioneers one of the first to benefit. IBM's senior vice president and Software division general manager, Stevemills, said in an interview with Dow Jones news Agency in April this year that IBM's cloud computing revenue has become a 1 billion dollar club, even though it did not disclose the specific revenue from the current cloud computing business. IBM's cloud computing revenues are expected to reach $7 billion trillion by 2015. Cloud computing is expected to become an IBM cash cow in the near future.

Chanda, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China, points out that cloud computing should highlight industry and enterprise applications to create value. "At present, IBM's cloud computing has been refined to the financial cloud, logistics cloud, manufacturing cloud, medical cloud, private cloud, mixed cloud, public cloud and other fields, is recognized and accepted by more and more customers." ”

In the Chinese market, IBM's cloud computing has also borne fruit everywhere. such as Bank of Communications, China Telecom, Sinopec and other high-end customers, have joined the embrace of cloud computing applications, IBM cloud computing users. IBM Development Center CTO and New Technology Research and Development Center General manager Mao told reporters, in addition to enterprise users, China's local government to strengthen the cloud computing infrastructure is also enthusiastic, IBM and local government departments, has been in Wuxi, Shandong, Dongying, Sichuan, Chengdu, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia and other fields to establish a cloud computing data center. Cloud computing plays a very important role in the "smart city" that IBM pushes in many cities in China. Mao also revealed that IBM is also actively wooing partners to participate in cloud computing, Lenovo, the Great Wall of computers, Ufida and other domestic well-known IT companies have become IBM's cloud computing strategic partners.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)