HP to acquire data center planning company

From bizjournals.com we find out today that HP has

…agreed to acquire EYP Mission Critical Facilities Inc., a consulting company specializing in strategic technology planning, design and operations support for large-scale data centers.

New York-based EYP has about 350 employees with 13 offices in the United States and the U.K.

This plays into to HP’s push into the mid-market of HPC where they are clearly positioning themselves to be the one place customers new to HPC have to stop.