Monday was a big day for old-line tech companies: IBM discovered e-commerce and HP discovered cloud computing. HP CEO Leo Apotheker outlined the company’s strategy at the HP Summit 2011 in San Francisco on Monday, emphasizing cloud computing, Internet-connected hardware, and its goal to plant webOS in PCs, printers, tablets and smartphones. HP’s hybrid cloud ecosystem will offer an online marketplace for developers to test, secure and sell applications varying from enterprise resource planning to games. HP will also push its own applications, Apotheker noted, focusing on business analytics and security.
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Apotheker Steers HP Toward the Cloud
Posted by: Rob Spiegel March 15, 2011 02:09 PMMonday was a big day for old-line tech companies: IBM discovered e-commerce and HP discovered cloud computing. HP CEO Leo Apotheker outlined the company’s strategy at the HP Summit 2011 in San Francisco on Monday, emphasizing cloud computing, Internet-connected hardware, and its goal to plant webOS in PCs, printers, tablets and smartphones. HP’s hybrid cloud ecosystem will offer an online marketplace for developers to test, secure and sell applications varying from enterprise resource planning to games. HP will also push its own applications, Apotheker noted, focusing on business analytics and security.