HP Software

Type	Division of HP
Industry	Computer Systems Computer Software Consulting IT Services
Headquarters	Cupertino, California, United States
Key people	Bill Veghte (Executive Vice President, HP Software Division)
Products	Enterprise Software HP Information Management Software Storage Software HP IT Management Software IT Performance Management Software HP Webos
Employees	14,000
Website	HP Software Home Page

HP Software is the Enterprise software division of information technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP).

From September 2005 through 2010, HP purchased a total of 15 software companies.^[1] According to Software Magazine, HP is the 3rd largest software company in the world in total software revenue, behind IBM and Microsoft as the first and second largest, respectively.^[2] In May 2010, HP announced that Bill Veghte would serve as the executive vice president of HP Software.^[3] Veghte formerly led Microsoft's Windows business. HP continued to acquire software and technology businesses in 2010.^[4][5]

In August 2010, HP announced it would acquire Fortify Software, a software security assurance company, specializing in static application security analysis.^[6][7] Also in August 2010, HP announced the acquisition of Denver-based Stratavia, a privately held database and application automation company for cloud computing.^[8] In mid-September 2010, HP announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire ArcSight (Nasdaq: ARST), a security and compliance software provider, for $43.50 per share, or approximately $1.5 billion.^[9] On October 22, 2010, HP announced it had completed its acquisition of ArcSight.^[10] The acquisitions of Fortify, Arcsight and TippingPoint are now being integrated into HP's IT security software portfolio.^[11]

In February 2011, HP announced it would acquire Vertica, a real-time analytics platform company^[12][13] and on March 22, 2011, HP completed its acquisition of Vertica.^[14][15] In Oct 2011, Autonomy Corporation, a provider of enterprise search and knowledge management solutions was acquired by HP^[16] and it quickly put into use its acquisitions, integrating Autonomy’s unstructured data analytics engine and Vertica’s fast-loading, real-time analytics database into a new Big Data Analytics platform – HP Next Generation Information Platform.^[17][18]

Product portfolio[link]

HP Software sells three categories of software: IT performance management, IT management software and information management software. HP Software also provides consulting, Software as a service, cloud computing solutions, education and support services.

IT Performance Suite[link]

The newest category of products offered by HP Software Division is the IT Performance Suite, announced on June 1, 2011.^[19] The HP IT Performance Suite captures and measures IT performance with a consolidated view into an organization’s technology environment, designed to provide a comprehensive view of IT performance across the enterprise.^[20] The HP IT Performance Suite uses the entire HP Software portfolio in a dashboard format that can be customized to measure specific key performance indicators.^[21][22] IT Performance Suite incorporates the use of industry standards including the Information Technology Infrastructure Library(ITIL).^[23]

IT Management Products[link]

The largest category of software sold by the HP Software Division is HP IT Management Software.^[24][25] IT management software is software that supports business objectives rather than IT goals.^[26] Other companies who develop and sell IT management software include IBM, BMC Software, Borland, CA, and Compuware.

HP aligns its IT management software products into product centers. The centers and the products in each are:

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) is a software product used by IT departments for managing and automating application modernization activities.^[27] The latest version of the software, HP ALM 11.0, was released in Nov. 2010. HP ALM 11.0 is a combination of a common platform, several applications and a dashboard designed to support software developers as they move applications from design through to delivery to operations.^[28] HP ALM 11 includes products from HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center. HP ALM 11.00 provides requirements management, test planning and functional testing, performance testing (when merged with HP Performance Center), developer management (through integration with widely used developer environments such as Collabnet TeamForge and Microsoft Visual Studio) and defect management.^[29] These software lifecycle activities are connected together from a workflow perspective with a common management console, layer of project tracking and planning and built on a common software foundation containing a consistent repository and open integration architecture with a supported SDK.^[28]

HP Business Service Automation is a set of technology software products used for unifying and standardizing the work of Information Technology (IT). HP Business Service Automation creates a common, enterprise-wide view of each business service; enables the automation of change and compliance across the devices that make up a business service; connects IT processes and coordinates teams via common workflows; and integrates with monitoring and ticketing tools to form an integrated business service management package.^[30]

HP Application Security Center consists of products that were formerly part of the SPI Dynamics software company portfolio.^[31] The Application Security Center catalog includes DevInspect, Assessment Platform, QAInspect and WebInspect.

HP Business Availability Center includes several application management products: HP Business Service Management Software, Business Process Monitor, Business Process Insight, Discovery and Dependency Mapping, End User Management Problem Isolation, HP SiteScope, System Availability Management, TransactionVision and HP Universal CMDB software, a configuration management database for ITIL-based initiatives.

HP Data Center Automation Center consists of Business Service Automation Essentials, Network Automation, Server Automation, Service Automation Reporter, Service Automation Visualizer, Storage Essentials, Operations Orchestration and Release Control software.

HP Network Management Center consists of the following products previously branded as HP OpenView: Network Node Manager, Performance Insight, TeMIP, Report Pack for Cisco Wireless LAN Pack, and Report Pack for Radius Call Detail v 1.3.

HP Operations Center catalog includes a number of products from its 2007 acquisition of Opsware: Discovery and Dependency Mapping, GlancePlus Pak,Operations Dashboard, Operations Manager Dependency Mapping Automation, Operations Manager i 8.0, Operations Smart Plug-ins, Performance Manager, Reporter, HP SiteScope, and HP Universal CMDB.

HP Performance Center consists of four products gained from HP's 2006 purchase of Mercury Interactive: Center Management for Performance Center, HP Diagnostics, HP LoadRunner Monitors, and HP LoadRunner.

HP Project and Portfolio Management Center(PPM) consists of nine products, many from HP's Mercury acquisition. The HP PPM catalog includes HP Deployment Management module, Discovery and Dependency Mapping software, PPM Demand Management module, PPM Financial Management module, PPM Portfolio Management module, PPM Program Management module, PPM Project Management module, PPM Resource Management module, and PPM Time Management module.

HP Quality Center includes HP Business Process Testing, Center Management for Quality Center software, Change Impact Testing for SAP Applications, HP Functional Testing software, HP QuickTest Professional, Requirements Management module, Service Test Management module for SOA, Service Test and HP WinRunner software.

HP SOA Service-oriented architecture Center includes SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, SOA Policy Enforcer, SOA Registry Foundation, SOA Systinet and HP Universal CMDB software. The Systinet product is a result of HP's purchase of Mercury Interactive.

HP Service Management Center includes Asset Manager, HP Connect-It software, DecisionCenter, HP Client Automation Software and Service Manager software.

HP Business Service Management 9.0, announced by HP Software Division in June 2010, is composed of HP Business Availability Center 9.0 (BAC), HP Operations Manager i 9.0 (OMi) and HP Network Management Center (NMC) 9.0 software products. HP BSM 9.0 works as a common single platform for managing complex applications, including those supported by both private and public cloud computing, outsourced IT, software-as-a-service (Saas) and traditional IT service delivery.^[32]

HP Software cloud computing portfolio consists of a number of software, services and third-party integrations designed to help IT departments adopt and manage cloud computing implementations, both public and private, as well managing traditional IT delivery.^[33] HP Software Division markets its cloud initiatives using a lifecycle approach.^[34] For planning and design of a cloud strategy and architecture, HP offers the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop, HP Cloud Roadmap Service, HP Cloud Design Service and HP Service Management Consulting Services.^[35] HP sells two software packages for automating and managing cloud infrastructure and applications, HP Cloud Service Automation Software and HP Business Technology Optimization Services for Cloud Infrastructure.^[36] Two services, HP Cloud Assure and HP Elastic Test, are designed for securing cloud-based services.^[37] HP LoadRunner in the Cloud is another cloud offering from HP Software Division. In May 2010, HP announced that an on-demand version of the application performance testing software would be available via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.^[38]

Information Management Products[link]

Information Management software is used to organize, protect, retrieve, acquire, manage and maintain information. The amount of data that companies have to deal with has grown tremendously over the past decade, making the management of this information more difficult.^[39] The University of California at Berkeley claims the amount of information produced globally increases by 30 percent annually.^[40] According to Julian Stuhler, director of Triton Consulting, data enterprise servers will “grow at a staggering 60 percent per year, resulting in 14 exabytes of corporate data by 2011.”^[41] Because of this Information explosion IT companies have created technology to help business manage this ever-expanding data.

HP Information Management Software consists of a portfolio of two main categories, business continuity and availability, and governance and E-discovery.

Business Continuity has one main offering, the HP Data Protector software that automates high-performance backup and recovery from disk or tape to enable 24x7 business continuity. This software can be used any size business as it can grow from a single server environment to the largest distributed enterprise infrastructure.

Governance and E-Discovery software helps companies meet the requirements of legal Electronic discovery and compliance regulations. The software meets the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)^[42] for capturing, classifying, preserving, finding, analyzing and recovering information. Products include HP TRIM Records Management System for electronic document management and Records Management, HP Integrated Archive Platform for compliance archiving, and HP Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for legal analytics.

User Groups[link]

While it is not an actual "user group", the ITRC is an online forum about HP Software products.^[43] A user group, the HP Software Solutions Community, officially launched publicly in April 2010 and includes all former software-related communities and id designed for IT practitioners. In June 2011, the ITRC was folded into the HP Software Solutions Community.^[44] In June 2011, HP Software announced a new Discover Performance community and online resource center designed to serve IT executives and CIOs.^[45]

HP DISCOVER customer event[link]

In 2011, HP Enterprise Business, along with participating independent user groups, combined its annual HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work into a single event, HP DISCOVER There are two HP Discover events annually, one for the Americas and one for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). HP DISCOVER 2011 Americas took place June 6–10, in Las Vegas at the Venetian/Palazzo.^[46] The HP DISCOVER 2011 event in EMEA is scheduled for Vienna, Austria, at the Reed Exhibitions, Messe Wien Congress Center, on November 29 through December 1, 2011.

Software Company Acquisition Timeline[link]

• Oct. 2011: Autonomy Corporation, provider of enterprise search and knowledge management applications solutions
• Mar. 2011: Vertica Systems, analytic database management software
• Oct. 2010: ArcSight, security management software
• Aug. 2010: Stratavia, database and application automation software
• Aug. 2010: Fortify Software, software security assurance solutions
• May 2008: Tower Software, document and records management software
• Jan. 2008: Exstream Software, variable data publishing software
• July 2007: Opsware, data center automation software
• June 2007: SPI Dynamics, Web applications security software
• Feb. 2007: Bristol Technology, Inc., business transaction monitoring technologies
• Feb. 2007: PolyServe, Inc., storage software for application and file serving utilities
• Feb. 2006: OuterBay, archiving software for enterprise applications and databases
• Nov. 2006: Mercury Interactive Corporation, application management and delivery and IT governance software
• Dec. 2006: Bitfone, mobile device software
• Dec. 2006: Knightsbridge Solutions LLC, a datawarehousing consulting and integration services company
• Nov. 2005: Trustgenix, Inc., federated identity management solutions
• Sept. 2005: Peregrine Systems Inc., asset and service management software
• Sept. 2005: AppIQ, open storage area network management and storage resource management technologies

External links[link]

• HP Software official site
• HP Software Solutions Community

References[link]

• HP LoadRunner fundamentals

Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966 in London, England and raised in Berkeley, California) is a high technology entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for co-founding and running (as its President and Chief Executive Officer) the enterprise software company Opsware. In July 2007, Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash.^[1] In June 2009, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in Menlo Park, CA.^[2]

Loudcloud and Opsware[link]

In September 1999, Horowitz cofounded Loudcloud with Marc Andreessen, Tim Howes, and Insik Rhee. Loudcloud offered infrastructure and application hosting services to enterprise and Internet customers such as Ford Motor Company, Nike, Inc., Gannett Company, News Corporation, the United States Army and other large organizations. Horowitz took Loudcloud public on March 9, 2001.^[3]

In June 2002, Horowitz began a dramatic transformation of Loudcloud into Opsware, an enterprise software company. He took the first step by selling Loudcloud's core managed services business to Electronic Data Systems for $63.5 million in cash.^[4] This transaction transferred 100% of Loudcloud's revenue to EDS while the company was publicly traded on NASDAQ. Beginning with EDS as its first enterprise software customer, Horowitz grew Opsware to hundreds of enterprise customers, over $100 million in annual revenue, and 550 employees. In July 2007, Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash.

Horowitz was Loudcloud’s and Opsware’s President and Chief Executive Officer for the entire history of the company. Along the way, shares of Opsware rose from $0.35 per share (at its nadir) to $14.25 a share (at the time of its sale to HP).

Following the sale of Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, Horowitz then spent one year at Hewlett-Packard as Vice President and General Manager in HP Software^[5] with responsibility for 3,000 employees and $2.8 billion in annual revenue.

Andreessen Horowitz[link]

Between 2005 and 2009, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen separately and together made a series of 40 angel investments in early stage technology companies primarily in Silicon Valley. In June 2009, Ben and Marc created the venture capital firm named Andreessen Horowitz to increase their ability to invest in and advise high technology companies.

Education and early career[link]

Horowitz earned a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA.

After UCLA, he began his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s. In 1995, Horowitz joined Marc Andreessen at Netscape as one of Netscape’s first product managers. He was rapidly promoted to Vice President and General Manager and was responsible for much of the Netscape Server product line, including 300+ people and $100M+ in revenue. After Netscape was acquired by AOL in 1998, Horowitz served as Vice President of AOL’s eCommerce Division.

Personal life[link]

Ben Horowitz lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and three daughters.

References[link]

1. ^ HP announces acquisition of Opsware on June 23, 2007
2. ^ Reuters July 6, 2009coverage on the launch of Andreessen Horowitz
3. ^ CNET coverage of Loudcloud's IPO
4. ^ ChannelWeb June 17, 2002 coverage of the sale of Loudcloud's managed services business to EDS
5. ^ HP executive profile of Ben Horowitz

External links[link]

• Ben's Blog
• Ben Horowitz's profile on LinkedIn
• Ben Horowitz's profile on Crunchbase (note, information is only up-to-date through Ben's tenure at HP Software)
• Crunchbase profile on Andreessen Horowitz
• Marc Andreessen's blog entry announcing the formation of Andreessen Horowitz
• Andreessen Horowitz Website

Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters at GUADEC 2008
Born	Robyn Peters
Nationality	American
Occupation	Engagement something or other
Employer	Mozilla Corporation
Known for	free and open source software advocacy
Website
http://www.stormyscorner.com/

Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst and prominent free and open source software (FOSS) advocate, promoting business use of FOSS. She advocates as a consultant and conference speaker. She co-founded, and was later appointed as executive director of the GNOME Foundation.

Peters' real first name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.^[1]

Career[link]

Peters completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Computer Science at Rice University and initially worked as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in their Unix development team.^[2]

In approximately 1999 Peters was managing the HP-UX desktop development and became aware of the GNOME project when the team decided to provide GNOME on HPUX. Peters had a role in explaining the Open Source business and intellectual property models to Hewlett-Packard management. She later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program office.^[3] In 2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.^[4]

In December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management for OpenLogic, an Open Source services company.^[5] In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation.^[4] Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing.^[3] In November 2010 she left to Mozilla.^[6] Since August 2011 she has been a member of the GNOME Board of Directors.^[7]

Peters has given keynote talks to many Open Source conferences including the Open Source Business Conference,^[2] linux.conf.au, the 2008^[8] and 2009^[9] GNOME.Asia summit in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh respectively, and the Ohio Linuxfest in 2010.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stormy Peters' blog

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