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HP Beefs Up Cloud Management Offerings: Page 3 of 3

HP has introduced a package of new service offerings to help business and enterprise customers develop hybrid cloud environments that are a combination of private and public clouds for delivery of IT. An industry analyst says this is one of several moves technology vendors like HP have made to become cloud service providers, thus putting them in competition with the service providers to which they sell their hardware.
January 26, 2011

In a follow-up e-mail interview, Broderick elaborated that "with a move like this, the server vendor needs to communicate clearly with all involved. They need to let their customers and partners know what their strategy is and how it fits in with and supports the service providers' and customers' strategies."

HP, like industry rivals IBM, Cisco Systems, Dell, Oracle and others, have worked in recent years to build their services businesses as a profitable adjunct to sales of hardware and software.

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