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HP's acquisition of Stratavia by Krish Khambadkone
Krish Khambadkone is a Client Architect at Infogain with over 18 years of experience in architecting and building systems. He is currently focused on Middleware and SOA integration both at the Strategic and Tactical levels, mainly in the areas of SOA evangelization and governance.
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Last week’s announcement by HP of its acquisition of Data Center Automation firm Stratavia indicates a continuing trend of consolidation in this space, evidenced by acquisitions of a similar nature of firms like Opsware and Cassatt. This trend is significant as firms try to deal with rapidly changing and heterogeneous IT environments that are increasingly operating on a dual Hybrid model—which means the maintenance of their internal IT assets as well as those deployed in a Hybrid cloud comprising of both private and public cloud infrastructures.
Without products like Stratavia’s Data Palette Platform, lifecycle maintenance of assets including databases and applications will be a virtual nightmare; so this acquisition certainly does make a lot of sense to help round out HP’s cloud service offerings. It will be interesting to see how HP deals with this acquisition. Apart from using it to streamline its own operations, HP could decide to offer this as a packaged product. Its advent could not have been more prescient.
Posted by Krish Khambadkone on 02 September, 2010
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