Industry networking leader HP announced yesterday that they acquired 3COM for $2.7Billion. There’s clearly product overlap in the SMB space, but the real crown jewel for HP will be their quick foray into the data center space. 3COM has some significant products that service this high-end data aggregation switch market. These include the S12500 and S5800 data center core and aggregation switches.
This combination will transform the networking industry and underscore HP’s next-generation data center strategy built on the convergence of servers, storage, networking, management, facilities and services. The resulting business outcome will help customers simplify the network, deploy a unique and innovative edge-to-core network fabric for the enterprise and improve IT service delivery capabilities, all delivered with best-in-class price-performance.
3COM also brings along their core routing and edge devices, another market where HP had a big hole in their product portfolio. So, on the surface it seems like an excellent purchase.
