Techworld.com – Storage Insight – Hurd speaks; continuing change at HP
…Mark Hurd did signal that focused acquisitions may be on the cards, ruling out larger-scale corporate buys such as Symantec. That may indicate that HP could move into the high-end network-attached storage (NAS) space. It also seems to need a data protection management reporting capability of its own, one that integrates well and deeply into its existing storage and IT infrastructure management products. There’s no sign that Storage Essentials is developing into this space…
Mellor points out repeatedly that non of the high-ups in HP (Hurd, Livermore, Robison) are talking about product (specifically Storage Essentials) but rather about strategy. Maybe that signifies a gap between product and strategy, or even between product strategy and corporate strategy? Are HP going to try to leverage “focused acquisitions” to bridge this gap, rather than Doing Engineering (which still seems to be regarded as a core competency amongst the engineers and their first few levels of management)?