In February, HP announced a portfolio of OpenFlow-enabled switches, which it says provide customers with the broadest choice in the industry for simplifying network management while meeting a wide range of bandwidth, performance and budget needs.

In April, it introduced the Virtual Application Networks, a cloud functionality, to help customers speed application deployment, simplify management and ensure network service level agreements (SLA) across HP's FlexNetwork architecture.

One month later, HP launched its Network Infrastructure Optimization Services portfolio, designed to help customers evaluate and improve network flow and infrastructure.