HP betting big on cloud to help company turn around
October 22, 2012
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
A few weeks ago HP’s Meg Whitman braced tech watchers with sobering warnings that earnings for one of the pioneering companies of Silicon Valley may fall 10% next year, and may not grow for another two years. But HP’s head of cloud computing says don’t let that talk fool you: HP will be a big player in the cloud, says Zorawar Biri Singh. "I wouldn’t confuse the last couple of weeks with any statement on the cloud," he says. "It’s a big deal for us."
Singh acknowledges that HP has "made a mess of" its cloud marketing strategy in the past two or three years. But in recent months HP has worked to unify its message around the HP Converged Cloud strategy, including reportedly naming the company’s former networking CTO Saar Gillai to help lead its cloud segment with Singh. "I have a big part in that, Meg [Whitman] is directly on top of it, the board members are integrally involved in it," he says. "This is a top-down strategy that is pretty well understood."…
HP could use the cloud to take off. The company announced 27,000 layoffs, its stock price hit its lowest level in a decade and it recently ceded the title of the world’s largest PC seller to Lenovo. Singh, though, is quick to point out that despite weak sales in its core printer and PC business, the tech giant still raked in a $6.8 billion profit on $29 billion in revenue during its most recent quarter, not far from Google’s $7.2 billion quarterly profit…
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