Thanks to its purchase of 3Com, HP is the worlds second-largest Ethernet port vendor in the rapidly consolidating networking space, behind Cisco but just ahead of D-Link. – Hewlett-Packard is now the second-largest Ethernet port vendor, thanks to its $2.7 billion acquisition earlier this year of 3Com.
According to market research firm In-Stat, HP in the second quarter jumped over D-Link to grab the second-place spot behind Cisco Systems in total Ethernet port shipment…
3Com’s high-end networking products are what HP’s partners have been waiting for to go head-to-head against networking market leader Cisco. Now, with 3Com’s H3C line coming to North America for the first time, HP partners say they have a core to edge solution to offer the routers and switches needed to challenge Cisco’s market lead.
– HP completed its acquisition of 3Com this week, and laid out the overarching plan in terms of the product integration that will take it to war against Ciscos stronghold in the networking market.
And HPs partners, still waiting for the final word on the integration of HP and 3Coms channel partner …
HP has completed its $2.7 billion deal for 3Com, a move that will expand its ProCurve data center networking portfolio and allow it to better compete in the converged data center space against rivals such as Cisco, IBM and Dell.
– Hewlett-Packard has completed its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com, giving the company more ammunition in its growing data center competition with Cisco Systems.
3Com will be integrated into HPs ProCurve networking
business, and an integration road map will be rolled out at a lat…
3Com is rolling out network security and performance offerings to help enterprises make the move to virtualized data centers. The new TippingPoint and H3C products are part of 3Com’s larger Secure Network Fabric initiative.
– 3Com is expanding its Secure Network Fabric initiative with offerings
designed to help large enterprises migrate to more virtualized data centers.
The new offerings, announced Feb. 22, bring more centralized
policy management to enterprise data center security and networking operations,
paving t…
European regulators are giving their approval to HPs $2.7 billion bid for networking equipment maker 3Com, a move that will bolster HPs ProCurve networking business, give it a greater presence in China and add to its converged data center solutions capabilities in its growing competition with the likes of IBM, Cisco, Dell and Oracle.
– The European Commission has given its approval to Hewlett-Packards $2.7
billion bid to buying networking equipment maker 3Com.
In a statement released Feb. 12, the European regulators said
they had concluded their investigation of the proposed deal focusing
particularly on the router and switch …
An unnamed source close to the Hewlett-Packard acquisition of 3Com tells Reuters that European regulators will OK the deal by the Feb. 12 deadline. HP is looking to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion to bolster its networking portfolio and converged data center offering against rivals such as IBM, Dell, Cisco Systems and Oracle. The EC has no antitrust qualms about the deal, the source says.
– Hewlett-Packard should have no trouble getting approval from European
regulators for its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking equipment maker 3Com,
according to a published report.
Quoting an unnamed source close to the negotiations, a Reuters report Feb.
10 said the European Commission has no…
Even as it prepares to get bought by Hewlett-Packard, 3Com is rolling out new products, most recently its H3C UNA portfolio, which gives businesses a common platform and operating system to support their wired and wireless access points. 3Com officials say the offering helps differentiate the company from Cisco Systems, which is forced to support multiple operating systems gained from acquisitions over the years.
– 3Com is looking to create a single enterprise networking layer by
integrating wired and wireless networking into a single solution.
3Com, which is in the process of being bought
by Hewlett-Packard, is rolling out its H3C UNA
(Unified Network Access) portfolio, which officials said has been built…
Even as it was building up its ProCurve networking business, HP was still missing the core data center switch that would enable it to compete more closely with Cisco. HPs $2.7 billion deal for 3Com will help close that hole, plus give it greater network security technology through 3Com subsidiary TippingPoint and greater reach in China, analysts said. It also will force other networking players, including Juniper, Extreme and Brocade, to figure out how they will handle a more formidable HP, they said.
– At the Interop 2009 show in Las Vegas
in May, officials with 3Com were showing off their networking product line as
the company was making its way back into the global market, positioning itself as
the low-cost alternative to Cisco Systems.
At the same time, those officials also were talking wit…
Hewlett-Packard’s $2.7 billion bid for 3Com will enable HP to fill some holes in its ProCurve product portfolio as it continues to challenge Cisco Systems in the $40 billion networking space, and as the two sides collide in the burgeoning competition for converged data center solutions. According to some analysts, Cisco owned about 52 percent of the networking market, while HP and 3Com were a distant second and third, followed by a host of other vendors. Combined, HP and 3Com will have about 20 percent of the market, making it a solid No. 2 to Cisco. The deal also adds to HP’s unified communications story and gives it greater traction in the important Chinese market.
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HP released preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter numbers in the wake of its announcement that it is buying networking equipment vendor 3Com for $2.7 billion. HP officials say revenues for the quarter will be 12 percent higher than the previous quarter, but 8 percent less than the same period last year. HP is scheduled to release its final quarterly numbers Nov. 23.
– On the heels of the announcement that it is buying networking
equipment vendor 3Com, Hewlett-Packard is releasing preliminary fiscal
fourth-quarter financial numbers that show revenues up 12 percent over the
previous quarter.
HP is scheduled to release final quarterly figures Nov. 23, but releas…
Hewlett-Packard is moving to expand its ProCurve networking business by buying 3Com for $2.7 billion, putting it in a better position to compete with Cisco Systems. The deal, which is expected to close in the first half of 2010, will give HP a greater networking presence in the enterprise, stronger network security capabilities and a larger presence in China. It also will help HP augment its converged data center solutions.
– Hewlett-Packard is adding to its already strong networking capabilities by
buying 3Com for $2.7 billion.
HP officials announced the deal Nov. 11, saying the acquisition will give HP
an edge-to-data center networking story and feed into its push for converged
data center solutions through HP’s Co…
