HP's acquisition of Stratavia

Last week’s announcement by HP of its acquisition of Data Center Automation firm Stratavia indicates a continuing trend of consolidation in this space, evidenced by acquisitions of a similar nature of firms like Opsware and Cassatt. This trend is significant as firms try to deal with rapidly changing and heterogeneous IT environments that are increasingly operating on a dual Hybrid model—which means the maintenance of their internal IT assets as well as those deployed in a Hybrid cloud comprising of both private and public cloud infrastructures.

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