When the Uttar Pradesh government announced a plan to distribute to laptops to students in the state last year, it was a shot in the arm for HP, the company that won the nearly Rs 2,800 crore contract to provide the laptops. The contract helped HP grab the largest share of the computer market in India — more than 32 per cent in the second and third quarter last year, according to research firm IDC.
“We have seen some good work happening around mobility. Analytics has been a little weak… for a while but we have seen some good investments from HP from the industry’s perspective. Also when lot of organisations are moving to the cloud, they prefer to work with vendors like HP because the underlying architecture is HP architecture,” Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, said.
Greyhound Research focuses on IT from an emerging markets perspective.
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