The last chain of "cloud conspiracy"--Cloud client

The fate of Palm, a former smartphone maker, was finally settled because HP spent 1.2 billion of dollars on it.

The result is somewhat surprising. Regardless of the price, from the buyer alone. HTC, Huawei, Nokia, Lenovo and other well-known companies have been in Palm's buyers list, and Lenovo was once considered as the most suitable buyers. The end result was unexpected, and HP was killed as a black horse.

Of course, the high price of 1.3 billion can scare off some of the buyers, but the key factor in the final deal is not enough sincerity. The final deal price of 1.2 billion dollars, the difference reached 100 million U.S. dollars, which is not a small number, whether it can also be in some way to see Palm is eager to unload the mentality?

However, some industry analysts do not think so, he said, "although only 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, but the total price is still high." Normally, the amount of this transaction will not exceed 500 million dollars. ”

Developing cloud client, completing the last chain of "cloud conspiracy"

It doesn't matter how much money is, and it's not important that palm is desperate to sell. It is reported that HP armed with 14 billion of dollars in cash reserves, it can be seen that it has enough economic strength for the layout of the mobile terminal market. So even if the transaction price is one-fold higher than the industry's analysts expect, it's not a cinch for HP.

Why is HP rushing to buy a handheld device manufacturer? How does Palm's technology and market fit into HP's existing business?

As we all know, cloud computing is one of the most popular terms in the moment. Who doesn't want to ride the bus? Who does not want to occupy a place in the market competition? Who doesn't want a slice of pie in the future market share? I'm afraid no one "dour no", HP is no exception.

People should have not forgotten, just in the past March, HP announced the completion of the total price of 2.7 billion U.S. dollars to buy network equipment manufacturer 3com Company agreement. By consolidating with 3com products, HP will consolidate HP's consolidated infrastructure strategy built on servers, storage, networks, management, tools, and services. This strengthens the competitive edge with Cisco, through which customers can streamline their networks and get more comprehensive network solutions that enhance HP's IT service delivery capabilities. At this point, HP has a strong enough configuration for all aspects of competition in cloud computing data centers, whether it be service, storage, or network equipment and architecture.

And looking at the entire cloud computing market, competition seems to be intensifying. We've seen Google desperately promoting its chrome, and Microsoft has embedded the Bing search engine in IE 8, all to enhance the experience of cloud users and the spread of cloud computing itself. In other words, competition has evolved from the traditional data center technology competition to the cloud computing client device competition.

However, HP has nothing to sell in the cloud, especially in the client side of the cloud that is the main direction of HP's future development. Cisco, by contrast, not only has a v-bloke in the corporate cloud, it can also integrate its own IP telephony into cloud clients, giving users a better cloud-computing experience. Therefore, HP to the cloud service chain from top to bottom all through, you must complete the enterprise internal cloud client side of the short board.

HP will not sit idly by and let Cisco sing the song of Triumph. HP glanced at Palm. HP has a crush on palm, apparently with its existing technology, brand influence and market share in mobile terminals. Palm webOS is very flexible, not only for mobile products, but also to expand to the tablet market, so that HP can abandon Google's Android system, the introduction of more personalized products, HP also has access to a complete smartphone business including hardware, software, patents and talent.

By acquiring PALM,HP, it will be possible to quickly complement the last chain of cloud strategy through Palm's existing mobile terminal advantage. Since then, HP has emerged as an integrated cloud service provider that integrates cloud computing services and mobile terminals for the enjoyment of its cloud services.

So it's not hard to understand the fact that Palm is being bought at a high price, and why HP is scrambling to find out what palm is trying to do to fill the "conspiracy" shortage chain of cloud computing.