HP to invest US$1b to transform business

Published: 2010/08/21

Hewlett Packard will invest US$1 billion (about RM3.1 billion) to transform its enterprise services business or end-to-end information technology services to better serve its customers, its senior vice president Pete Karolczak said.

During this multi-year transformation and investment, HP plans to consolidate Enterprise Services’ commercial data centers, management platforms, and networks tools.

It will also enhance applications to create a more scalable modernised and automated IT infrastructure that will enable clients to respond to rapidly changing business conditions, he said today.

"HP will leverage experience from its internal IT transformation, helping clients modernise and migrate their applications to these next generation infrastructure platforms," said Karolczak, who is also the general manager for Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO) within HP Enterprise Services.

In turn, customers will enjoy lower cost, greater flexibility and responsiveness in enterprise services delivery, he said.

He said part of the US$1 billion will also go towards retiring legacy assets and building new, modernized facilities.

"The goal is to move customers from spending investment on maintenance into state-of-the-art, highly-secure, highly-dense, green, sustainable infrastructure built on HP's converged infrastructure suite of products and services."

This applies to all regions, including Asia Pacific & Japan, he said.

HP also plans to reinvest for further growth in private cloud infrastructures, application transformation services, and desktop technology delivered as a service, said Karolczak.

The investment will also strengthen HP's trusted Best Shore delivery model by establishing a core number of global delivery hubs that form a highly scalable backbone for Best Shore, providing the first best-in-class, balanced global delivery model in the industry.

"Our Malaysia center will serve as one of these Best Shore hubs, leveraging HP hardware, software and technology expertise to lower costs, improve quality and enable growth," he said.

Malaysia, he said offers the expert workforce, languages, skills, capabilities and industry expertise to meet our clients’ business requirements and quality expectations in Asia as well as across the globe. -- Bernama

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