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HP builds out cloudy wares with Stratavia buy

Hewlett-Packard has snapped up a database and application automation company called Stratavia for an undisclosed sum. Stratavia was founded in 2001 by database experts Venkat Devraj and Rainier Luistro, who wanted to create a set of tools to automate how databases are managed. The company was originally called ExtraQuest, and …

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All your DBAs are belong to redundancy

*Pulls out Magic 8 Ball and peers into the Christmas future of HPES (which is also our Christmas past with Opsware):

1.) HPES leadership will "pay" (it's all internal funny money after all) the Software division hundreds of millions of dollars for this new Jesus Solution

2.) Hatchets will swing wildly chopping through the ranks of our DBAs. After all, their jobs will be replaced by the Jesus solution and glass watchers with the equivalent of Level 1 Help Desk "Playbooks" to do everything

3.) The tool will not work to expectation. In fact, it may work worse than some of the home-grown solutions (the type built and used by "real" DBAs) it replaced

4.) The poor bastard DBAs that are left will be expected to pick up the slack. The glass watchers will happily collect their paychecks for doing essentially nothing.

5.) End result - poorer service quality than before at greater cost. HPES balance sheet will look like shit while the Software division comes out smelling like roses. More layoffs with HPES because it's obviously all our fault.

*Whistles

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Automation

HP wants to Automate everything, not for Automation's sake, but to get rid of those expensive things called "resources"

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