What you are seeing is proof points of what we are doing. The new products allow service providers to develop Web-based services like secure interactive sites. Last month it bought Bluestone Software, a company which specializes in middleware, the broad category of software between operating systems and applications that keep networks running smoothly. Middleware ranges from software that balances loads between computers in order to stop large applications from swamping a particular server to programs that can translate information between applications running on different platforms. The new Hewlett-Packard middleware includes tools for encryption, diagnosing how a network is running and being used and a data storage manager.
Competitors make the same claim.
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