{"id":1151,"date":"2008-05-13T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2008-05-13T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:08:11","slug":"cloud-seeding-hp-eats-eds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/cloud-seeding-hp-eats-eds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Seeding: HP eats EDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center><small>Cloud Services &#8211; Compute\/Storage Services<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/cloud.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud, not cumulus, compute and storage\" width=325 height=220 \/><\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>In the latest consolidation in the IT industry at the top tier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_9243221\" target=\"_blank\" >HP announced a definitive agreement to purchase IT services company EDS for $13.9B<\/a>. There are many views on why HP would make this move, but to me the obvious play is in the &#8220;cloud&#8221; computing model that is emerging. EDS&#8217; principal business is in the outsourced operation of data centers and it&#8217;s only a small step from outsourcing to cloud sourcing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the cloud you ask? It&#8217;s pretty simple, it&#8217;s when a business makes the choice not to own and operate its own computing infrastructure and instead procure compute cycles and storage from networked based services. The best present examples are Amazon&#8217;s EC2 and S3 compute and storage services at an infrastructure level and Salesforce.com at the application level.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile there is an obvious revenue combination and cost synergy, the basis for this acquisition really is to allow HP to establish a leading position as businesses, particularly small businesses, they migrate toward consuming network-based computing services.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Services &#8211; Compute\/Storage Services In the latest consolidation in the IT industry at the top tier, HP announced a definitive agreement to purchase IT services company EDS for $13.9B. There are many views on why HP would make this move, but to me the obvious play is in the &#8220;cloud&#8221; computing model that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}