HP's abandonment of Chinese local standards

Sina Science and technology news July 3, about 19 o'clock in the evening yesterday, China's HP on the recent local blade server standards controversy to Sina Technology issued an exclusive statement, said HP has no intention to participate in China blade server standards debate, and firmly believe that the market standards should be based on user needs. The controversy over the above criteria the origin of the storm in the afternoon of June 20, an IBM System x server in Greater China in the BladeCenter Blade server after the release of new products in the media interview hinted that the dawn company launched by the Chinese local server standards will not succeed.　　The speech, which caused a stir in the industry. It is understood that High-performance computer is currently widely used, not only to measure a country's comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness of the important indicators, but also the world's competing strategic commanding heights.　　Among them, Blade server is the most important. According to IDC forecasts, Blade server market size will be from the current 2 billion U.S. dollars to 10 billion U.S. dollars, is gradually showing its attractive charm.　　However, Gartner's data show that in 2006 IBM, HP two occupy the world's 74% Blade server market, in the Chinese market share of the local manufacturers is minimal. In the face of great pressure from overseas giants, some local server manufacturers are actively advocating the establishment of local blade server standards in China.　　Last August, Dawn, supported by Mii, set up a "high standard Computing Committee" for high-performance Standards computing, starting with blade calculations. Faced with the question from IBM, June 23, MII, China Electronic Standardization Association of High-performance Computer Standards Working Committee Secretary General Zengyu responded: "The majority of the global server by foreign enterprises, Chinese enterprises to unite to set the Chinese standard is not to form a monopoly, but to overthrow the original monopoly." Chinese companies cannot simply label foreign companies.　　"Hewlett-Packard, one of the two giants of the blade server market, is more cautious about China's local standards than IBM," he said. On the afternoon of June 28, Hewlett-Packard Global server business executives said HP was interested in working with peers to discuss the introduction of blade computing standards, while focusing on the progress of China's local server standards.　　But because of the complexity of the standards, he had some concerns about the local blade server standards that had been launched by the dawning company. On the evening of July 2, China's Hewlett-Packard issued an exclusive statement to Sina technology to supplement the evaluation of the relevant standards.　　In its statement, Hewlett-Packard first stressed that it had no intention of participating in the debate on standards and was more willing to focus on users and products. Hewlett-Packard also pointed out that the user's needs of the relevant standards to determine the role, any separation from the user needs of the so-called standards are not viable. HP also believes that it products and services that can help users increase business returns, reduce risk, and reduce costs will become market standards. (Ma Quanzhi) The following is the full text of China HP's statement on Blade server standards: HP, one of the world's largest IT companies, has always been committed toUsers to large enterprises of various types of customers, to provide convenient and easy-to-use technology experience.　　From ProLiant servers, integrity kinetic servers, storage, to management software, HP has been an advocate and promoter of the fact industry standards. HP believes that users are market-driven. The user's demand determines the IT company's technology, the product development direction, also decides the IT product technical standard formulation. Looking back over the past more than 40 years of it history, we can see that user needs play a decisive role in determining the technical standards of IT products.　　Any of the so-called standards out of user needs, are not vitality, is abandoned by users. Whether for blades or other IT products, HP companies are careful to understand, listen to the needs of users, and in HP products to meet the needs of users.　　This is the main reason HP's products are favored by users.　　HP has no intention of participating in the debate on standards, and we focus on understanding user needs, providing products and services that meet the needs of users, and helping users improve their business results. HP believes that it products and services that can help users increase business returns, reduce risk, and reduce costs are what users need and will become market standards.