HP’s World Premier

learly HP is enjoying Dell’s recent fall from what used to be ‘untouchable’ in terms of price, quality, and service. HP has revieled an impressive (and ambitious) mission to surpass IBM to become the world’s largest IT company.

Key areas of growth for this giant - and for partners like us are the following:

Printing - Color and Mulitfunction (vs. B&W)

Blade Servers (vs. Tower and standard Rack configurations)

Notebooks (vs. PC’s).

One key area of growth in the PC Space will be the Blade PC innovation (up until now, I had only heard of a company called Clear Cube, who had this offering). Imagine all PC’s being in the datacenter, and users accessing the processing power of their PC’s via a Thin Client. This has always read to me like “Citrix / Terminal Services, but more expensive, and not as flexible” - so I still don’t quite get it! Though I’m sure if HP is excited about it, there is a market out there!

Off to the Keynote at the Convention Center, followed by Demo Rooms and Exhibits.