Project partners
Hewlett-Packard Italiana (HP)
HP is a Fortune 11 company, with $91 billion in revenue, generating $7 billion in organic growth
in the latest fiscal year. HP has 150,000 employees doing business in 178 countries around the
world.
HP corporate headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California. Mark Hurd is HP’s chairman and chief executive officer.
HP is a leading global enterprise IT provider, with 69,000 service and support professionals. It is #1 globally in a number of ICT market segments, like most of LaserJet and Inkjet printers, Windows® and Linux servers, notebook PCs. It is #2 globally in Pocket PCs, desktops, workstations, blade servers.
HP invests every year $3.6 billion in Research & Development, and has a team of more than 30,000 technical contributors. Its R&D structure is based on HP Labs, providing basic technological innovation, and a network of business linked solution and innovation centers, developing best of breed end to end solutions for all HP’s customers.
Italy Innovation Center (IIC) is one of HP's European Centers of excellence. It is part of HP Consulting & Integration, the business unit in charge of delivering end-to-end ICT solutions to customers in a number of vertical industries, including Telecommunication operators, Finance and Banking, Manufacturing, Public Sector.
Since 1999, IIC is carrying on applied research, technology transfer and innovative solutions integration in leading edge areas. It can rely upon an excellent team of researchers, consolidated skills and methodologies, and a physical infrastructure supporting project development and demonstration. It participated in around 20 projects in the previous framework programs.
Contribution within the Consequence project:
HP is interested in policy management, trust, security and privacy technologies for people, enterprises and Internet-based environments. The Consequence project offers a unique opportunity to pursue research in these areas, and to build standardized, cross-vendor solutions to securely automate data exchange flows among enterprises and/or organizations.
HP is going to investigate how metadata, formal semantics and formal languages can support the definition of unambiguous data-sharing agreements, which enable context-aware and secure data exchange. HP intends to contribute to the development of software framework that supports distribution and enforcement of policies, and we will apply our solutions to Consequence Test Beds.
HP will also contribute both to research areas related to formal semantics and metadata, and also to the architectural design and implementation of Consequence software framework. Finally a strong contribution is expected to Consequence Test Beds, bringing the expertise, technological competence and support.
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