War upgrades Cisco terminates HP System integration cooperation

About a year after launching its own data center product, Cisco officially announced the end of its system integration program with HP in Thursday. Two companies are now officially rivals in the data center market. With the white-hot competition between HP and Cisco, Hewlett-Packard is being removed from the list of "partners who can receive a confidential product roadmap" from Cisco.

Cisco said in its Thursday blog that Cisco would continue to comply with HP's cooperation agreement and comply with HP's customer service contracts to protect the interests of Cisco users.

Keith Goodwin, senior vice president of Cisco Global partner organization Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/1719.html, said: " The relationship between HP and Cisco has shifted from cooperation to providing customers with different values and ideas. ”

"We have started discussions with HP around a new agreement to ensure business continuity for our existing customers and hope to better reflect the status quo of our relationship," he said. We will also fulfill Cisco and HP's customer service contract commitments. ”

As the two companies no longer share a common goal, HP can contact Cisco's proprietary information through a joint project, so Cisco decided to terminate its cooperation with HP. That means HP will no longer be a Cisco-certified channel and a global alliance partner. This means that HP will not be able to see Cisco's future Product details, and no longer have the initiative to partner profits.

The two-company partnership began to crack last March when Cisco unveiled its own unified Computing system Data Center product. 51CTO Editor Note: Beijing time February 6, Cisco unveiled its new enhanced data center product designed to simplify connectivity and resource allocation across multiple data centers and optimize cloud computing and virtualization.

Last November, Hewlett-Packard bought 3Com Corp. for $2.7 billion, the latter's network directly competing with Cisco. And HP's move is also widely considered to be in the network field with Cisco a short length. 51CTO Edit Note: Earlier news that HP's integration of H3C, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3Com in China, will make progress in March this year means that HP is becoming more and more stable in its overall foray into cyberspace, and that Cisco's actions clearly show its stance to the outside world.

According to the latest news from foreign media, Hewlett-Packard has just issued a statement: "History has proven that both customer and market demand require it vendors to compete and cooperate." Most major vendors compete in one direction and collaborate in other areas to provide the best service to their customers. It is hard to believe that maintaining a unique position can guarantee the best interests of our clients.

"We will provide consulting, integration, management and heterogeneous environment support to our customers ' heterogeneous environments and ensure that our hardware and software platforms are optimized for all leading network platforms."

"Our strategy and platform will continue to be market-oriented, to create advantages for customers, towards success." ”

HP has not rejected Cisco as a partner, and will continue to ensure that its products work well with Cisco products. But it is clear that the work will not begin until HP receives details of Cisco's roadmap.