UPDATED 14:39 EDT / OCTOBER 10 2011

HP Expands Software & Services Portfolio, Introduces Memristor Chips

Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its enterprise software, hardware and services offerings as it preps to spin off its core consumer electronics business under new head Meg Whiteman. This comes alongside fading investor confidence in the move and the future of the company, though HP hopes to change that.

The first update is the addition of several new products to its FlexNetwork portfolio, which is based on 3Com, a company it acquired last year.

Among the new additions is the new 10GbE 5900 top-of-a-rack-switch switch and an the 12500 series, which boost server-to-server traffic by up to 80 percent according to the company.   Hewlett-Packard also introduced the HP FlexCampus line-up:

“Among the FlexCampus offerings are the new 3800 stackable switches, which offer up to 450 percent higher performance, and a new reference architecture for campuses that brings together wired and wireless networks.”

Lastly, new VMware- and Citrix-powered FlexBranch virtualized service modules have been added that will be rolled out in Q4 and early 2012.

The second and more interesting update from HP is that it will roll out memristor-powered offerings within a year and a half.  The fourth passive circuit element alongside the resistor, capacitor, and the inductor was convinced by the University of California four decades ago, and HP Labs was the first to implement it in 2008.  Now, Hewlett-Packard is already gearing up to introduce a replacement to flash and SSD. DRAM and SRAM competitors are set to be launched sometime around 2015.

It’s interesting that the company has plans to license the technology rather than manufacturing the memoristor products in-house, and also, perhaps not so surprisingly, that HP is already facing a competitor.  Samsung is also working on its own memoristor chips.

In addition to expanding its portfolio, HP is also expanding its partnerbase.  Canonical said last week Ubuntu will be the OS powering HP Cloud Services, the company’s beta IaaS. It will operate as a “ “reference OS” for OpenStack, which is used to power both the services currently available.

These updates represent a part of a new strategy Whiteman has embarked on, which involves far less acquisitions and more in-house R&D.


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