HP Announced a Future Modification within the Company

Hewlett-Packard has today announced that it will initiate a four year plan in order to diminish real estate costs by fusing numerous business locations worldwide to fewer core sites, according to Electronics Weekly.

This project is the effect of the restructuring announcement made on July 19, 2005, when HP's representatives said that the company's infrastructure will be modified in order to cut costs.

"To reduce costs, HP expects to consolidate real estate holdings into core sites in key locations around the world, relinquish floor space within certain leased buildings and close certain sites or floors in buildings that it owns," said HP representatives.

But HP recently released what it is said to be a revolutionary blade architecture that can enable clients to save much of the sums invested in data centers.

According to the manufacturer, the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program connects hundreds of independent software and hardware vendors, systems integrators and resellers to build up and deliver a wide range of services and products for worldwide customers.

Several application and hardware specialized companies were involved in c-Class development, including AMD, Blade Network Technologies, Brocade, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Emulex, Intel, Mellanox, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, PolyServe, QLogic, Red Hat, SAP, VMware and Voltaire.

"The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio leverages the best technologies across HP - from NonStop servers to printers - and brings them together to fundamentally improve how our customers buy, build, manage and use their computing resources," said Tony Parkinson, Vice President & General Manager, Industry Standard Servers, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific.

HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio seems to be the main product included in HP's Adaptive Infrastructure offering, which enables customers to adopt automated, "lights-out" computing environments that are meant to lower the cost of IT operations and deliver a higher quality of service.