HP to Open Cloud, R&D Centers in China

Hewlett-Packard is opening two new centers in China, unrivalled focused on cloud computing, and the other along research, equally the company ramps up to address this volumed market.

The company opened a new HP Cloud Executive Briefing Center in the Chinese city of Tianjin near Beijing on Tuesday. The center will help customers in "edifice, facultative and operating" HP cloud products, CEO Leo the Lion Apotheker aforesaid Midweek in Beijing.

The company also plans to open a refreshing center for enquiry in enterprise servers, storage, and networking. The center, in Beijing, will unrestricted at the end of the year.

HP's end is to deliver market-specialized technologies for China, Apotheker said. The company recently made Todd Thomas Bradley responsible for planning its scheme for China, in addition to his role as head of the Personal Systems Group.

A number of HP executives are visiting Taiwan this week, reflecting the growing importance of the country. The companionship announced connected Sunday that it will build a regional hub in Shanghai focused on the Physical Systems Group, which makes PCs, tablets and smartphones.

Apotheker devoted much of his spoken language on Wednesday to cloud calculation, an area in which HP has ambitions to become a John Major service supplier. In March, the companionship unveiled a new cloud computation platform that will compete with services offered by Amazon and Google.

During a Q&A session following Apotheker's oral communicatio, HP executive director vice president Vyomesh Joshi said the company believes cloud printing will be an attractive intersection to its customers in China. It allows user to remotely print documents from devices like smartphones and tablets to HP printers.

China is likely to suit unmatchable of the world's fastest adopters of cloud computing, according to research firm Gartner. A Gartner survey plant that 55 percent of respondents in China will spend more than 10 per centum of their IT budgets connected cloud computing by 2020, in contrast to 49 percent of respondents in the U.S. and 42 percentage of respondents in Europe.