HP launches 3 enterprise IT service units

Hewlett Packard (HP) today unveiled three facilties in California, Singapore and Bangalore, as part of a $500 million investment in service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers.

The three HP SOA Competency Centers are experience centers enabling HP, its customers and its partners to pilot and evaluate SOA technologies, solutions and implementations.

SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable, standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.

The opening of the three SOA Competency Centers brings HP's total to five worldwide, with two additional centers located in Sophia Antipolis, France and Tokyo.