In autumn 2011, the Board of Directors of Hewlett-Packard (HP) has appointed Meg Whitman (Meg Whitman) executive director in the hope that the former head of eBay will be able to take the company out of crisis. Drastic measures really improved HP, and today we can say about the stable state of the company.
In his speech at the HP World Tour in Beijing Whitman said that the computer industry is at a crossroads. The market potential of older products has been exhausted, and HP is spending a lot of money on research and design work on the creation of new ones. In particular, special attention is paid to cloud technologies, compact and energy-efficient servers, storage systems and printers. In this case, HP is going to listen to Chinese customers. Celestial generally viewed HP as potentially the largest market for personal computers, and with the confidence of Chinese customers Whitman links the viability of the company in the future.
Critical changes in the industry are reflected in the ways of consumption, delivery and payment technologies. The changes are mainly dictated by the increase in the volume of data generated from cameras, mobile phones, payment systems, and various sensors. In the next three years, the number of servers involved processing big data and the maintenance of cloud services will increase to 80-10 million, and their total cost is $ 10-20 billion.
According to Whitman, data centers that exist today, are not viable either in terms of the use of space, either in terms of energy expenditure. HP sees a future for the back-end systems such as Moonshot, one of the newest developments of the company. This system reduces the space occupied by equipment, by 80%, energy consumption - by 89%, associated costs - by 77%.
Finally, Whitman stressed that the scope of information technology is no longer limited to the maintenance of computer healthy state .