HP’s new regional networking chief is looking to its existing partner community to aggressively grow market share in the networking market.

HP’s local Enterprise Storage, Server and Networking (ESSN) director, Paul Robson, has been selected to head up its networking efforts across Asia-Pacific and Japan. The move comes a little more than 12 months after he was promoted to the director’s role]].

Dicker Data will continue its fight for access to HP’s Printing and Imaging Group (IPG) products after gaining rights to the vendor’s networking portfolio.

Ingram Micro has emphasised its commitment to HP’s 3Com and ProCurve solutions following global changes to the vendor’s networking channel strategy.

HP is promising partners an integrated HP and 3Com portfolio, along with extensive services and enablement support, after officially completing its acquisition of the networking vendor.

It started with a cup of coffee between 3Com COO Ron Sege and HP ProCurve chief Marius Haas a year ago.It ended with this week's $US2.7 billion blockbuster acquisition of 3Com by HP. In between were regular dialogue and updates, a demonstration at Interop last May, a technology bake-off in HP labs, and then an offer.