Mar 15, 2011 08:34 GMT  ·  By

It's becoming increasingly clear that ultra-portable mobile computing devices, such as Internet tablets and smartphones, will represent a huge market segment on the future, and HP is keen on getting a bigger piece of this very serious pie on the future, as the company's CEO states.

So, according to a report by Mashable, it would seem that HP CEO Leo Apotheker, formerly of SAP, is quite keen on dedicating a lot of the company's resources to establishing a very serious foothold in the field of cloud-connected products and services.

In order to achieve this goal, HP will apparently focus on cloud-connected tablets and smartphones, but also entire services that will be available via the respective portable devices (virtually turning them into some ultra-mobile, ultra-portable workstations).

And from what we've seen thus far, the company might have a couple of aces up its sleeve, starting with the HP Touchpad and new webOS smartphones, such as the Veer and Pre, that manage to work together in a very interesting manner, providing just a glimpse at what the future might have in store for us, such as, for example, complete and seamless collaboration between various ultra-mobile devices running the same OS.

To be perfectly honest, HP's plans really seem to be quite realistic, taking into account the current state of things in the IT world, and should the company really manage to come up with products that will be compelling enough for their targeted market segments, than they might actually seriously increase their revenues and market share over the next couple of years.

Naturally, achieving success on this highly-competitive market will certainly be a difficult task, but we're pretty sure HP's got what it takes in order to make the transition from desktop PCs (and even notebooks) to tablets and the cloud in a very seamless and, why not, lucrative manner.