Investments in HP

HP, the leader in computers and in the printer markets on Tuesday introduced their latest range of integrated servers, storage and networking solutions to the country.
Anant Sharma, HP’s Marketing Manager Business Control Systems told reporters that HP’s converged infrastructure was scalable with investors not having the need to replace their entire systems, especially if one is an HP user, to upgrade one’s hardware systems.
These converged infrastructure solutions start from U.S.$ 10-15,000 and upwards.
Economical in space, some of HP’s customers here include Dialog, SriLankan and the MAS Group of Companies.
Shiran Perera, HP Country Manager Enterprise Business Sri Lanka said that Srilankan, by virtue of the fact that they use HP servers, have reduced the number of such hardware in use from several hundred to between 45-50 recently.
Under the new converged system on offer, the number of servers that need to be used could be further reduced , he said.
Perera also said that by using HP solutions, a company could recover its investments from within 8-12 months time.
Further, such investment resources could be used to the optimum, in the backdrop that it has been found that in practice, 80% of resources offered by computer systems are wasted.
Meanwhile Sharma said that companies in their I.T. spend use 70% for maintenance and 30% for innovation.
HP wants to reverse this role to 70% on innovation and only 30% for maintenance.
HP’s offering covers the whole gamut of the economy-services, agriculture and manufacturing/industries.
HP’s products which are economical in power consumption and moving towards greener technology, saw a 15-20% growth in the Sri Lankan market in the first half of the year, year on year (y.o.y.), while the number of units sold also increased y.o.y.
But last year was a bad year for the industry with budgets being cut due to the global recession.