HP shoots for the cloud - seeking alpha

HPS of new CEO reveals Leo pharmacists of the company's latest corporate strategy yesterday with much fanfare, but little polka.

The topic of his speech and HP's new mantra "Connections" provides "Everyone to" move in the cloud.

During the picture he painted strategic response of this new world order and HP covered all the bases, there are still many pieces, which together have to come to make you become a reality.

Pharmacist's "Vision" was certainly well thought-out and his presentation was well scripted. No one can claim, with its view that,

Clearly, we see a world where not only the user experience, but how are individuals, small businesses and enterprise changes the impact of cloud and connectivity use, provision and use of information technology.

I would also agree that "HP is well positioned to be the trusted leader in dealing with this opportunity." But, it looks much problems takes advantage of this opportunity.

The pharmacist four-point strategy to capture this opportunity includes:

"Extending its leadership position in the Administration and optimization of today's conventional environments;" "" Use of HP strength in cloud create and manage next-generation cloud based architectures; ""Customer is the trusted partner allows the seamless transition on hybrid computing models; "and" "define and delivery networked world of consumers by companies."

Includes just about every corner of today's rapidly developing market. And HPQ (HP) has for a while inching towards this was. It is not only the largest IT provider, but provides also a very faithful consumers, SMB, Enterprise and channel.

But HP is burdened with legacy products, hardware and software, as well as cumbersome business processes. Many of its systems are too expensive. Almost all of its software is too complex. And their business processes too many are too disjointed. So, not attacking all of these opportunities is at the same time cost effective and profitable way is easy.

The good news is that pharmacists and HP identify these issues and are promising to address them. Even more promising, he is the statement that they are not going to acquire more legacy systems and software to solve their problems. This will hopefully put to rest the persistent rumors that HP SAP purchase.

Instead, HP will need to create and purchase new functional capabilities that quickly, its systems and SaaSify its software and services are automated.

HP must carefully go through the three segments of the world are cloud computing-software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS).

During pharmacist suggested that HP in all three sections play must, would I suggest that it focus on SaaS and IaaS and PaaS, inviting third party developer on its OpenView trying it can add management suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) to increase and accelerate the development of the OpenView, to limit. I call this the "tug"-strategy.

Thus, HP, IBM outduel I believe that consumers must use it on their market presence focus on its IT management capabilities, and keep your corporate power struggles to a minimum.

IBM gave away the PC business and has no handheld device or consumer market presence. It has put its software value on cloud activation instead of cloud management. Middleware is important, but to control the chaos is created by the cloud. And IBM continues with political struggles between the areas of hardware, software and services to fight, that each group not only his responsiveness to rapid market changes to delay, but also their costs, connections as trying to maximize their revenues.

HP is sure to Suscipitable to the same organizational issues, but they can use its channel relationships and consumer orientation counter.

While Dell (DELL) HP consumer can match on the front, is it still catch up to enterprise-level plays with his Perot Systems services and automated systems. And it was unable to overcome his historical channel.

When Lou Gerstner IBM took it apart seams came and many of his sale called for, he announced that competitive advantage of the company of his model exhibition, which was a portfolio of hardware, software and services, and claimed that you don't need a vision that had to do it.

Pharmacists also sees the advantage of a multidisciplinary corporate portfolio, but believes that you through a new vision to the sustained growth fuel must be listed.

Accommodation not happen conversion of a vision in design. In fact it will be fulfilled probably never completely. Is HP instead of how fast he can demonstrate that it is making tangible progress in their efforts measured are.