They did so while also enabling faster onboarding for newly acquired companies and making the most of their data center consolidation efforts, application portfolio analysis, service desk convergence, and heavy automation at all levels.
Eliminating underutilized servers will lower energy usage so consolidation and virtualization can cut data storage costs as well as enable low-cost disaster recovery capabilities.
While cyclical IT budgeting factors are likely at work, we also believe that the BI market has matured after a post-recession and post-consolidation growth phase and that enterprise attention has turned to new data processing and analytics technologies.
Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.