HP Labs annual report

“Hewlett Packard has issued its 2010 annual report for its research and development arm and outlined its big bets for the years ahead….

among them:

Cirious: An enterprise cloud platform. The idea behind Cirious is to make HP a service provider for cloud computing players so they can develop, host and manage their services easily.

Automated security: HP’s goal here is to add analytics to security management and automate things like threat detection, governance and fixes.

IT Informatics: HP Labs is aiming create a unified store of corporate data sources for IT managers to visualize resources. With these informatics, IT managers can automate systems and mine sequences and data.

Live business intelligence: HP Labs is eying a LiveBI Platform that takes data management and fuses it with analytics and execution.

Taming information overload: HP says it wants to highlight “non obvious patterns and implications” to provide insight. The research effort revolves around contextual relevance, timeliness, scale of information and gauging importance of data.

CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth): HP aims to “provide a new level of environmental awareness” via a network of cheap sensors and data storage gear. That infrastructure will be enhanced by analysis tools. The goal: Create “a Moore’s Law for sensing,” says HP, which is focusing on the networking fabric to make this effort work.

Next-gen data centers: The goal here is to create automated and programmable data centers that integrates novel computing platforms, scalable systems and programming platforms.”

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