HP Storms Networking Market with 3Com Buy

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard drew attention to the company’s commitment to open standards and the importance of newly acquired network infrastructure specialist 3Com’s presence in China during a conference call detailing HP’s plans for a comprehensive networking portfolio.

David Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking business unit, opened the call with a list of five reasons HP would transform the networking industry, naming superior technology, open standards architecture, an end-to-end product portfolio, converged infrastructure and a lower total cost of ownership.