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HP ousts Cisco from HP data centres
Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:22
HP has opened its first internal data centre that is "Cisco-free" thanks to products from newly acquired 3Com and it says it plans to remove Cisco gear from all six of its major data centres within a year.
Another data centre in Houston and two each in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia provide business continuity and disaster recovery for all of HP's operations.
Ken Gray, vice president infrastructure in HP's Global Information Technology Organisation, boasted: "We're Cisco-free in this data centre and have a plan to extend this freedom across all of our internal IT data centres next year."
A year ago Cisco significantly increased its portfolio of data centre products from networking to servers with the launch of its Unified Computing System, putting in head-on competition with HP.
In February Cisco terminated HP's role as a Cisco Certified Channel and Global Service Alliance partner, saying that: " Over the last few years our relationship with HP has evolved from a partner to companies with different and conflicting visions of how to deliver value to customers."
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