Figuring out cost-effective ways to acquire, process, store, retrieve, and communicate useful information has led to the vastly expanding and innovative field of information technology. The Hewlett-Packard Corporation (HP) is one of the world's largest information technology companies and often acquires other companies in its mission to be the industry leader in this field. Here is an example: Hewlett-Packard acquired the data management company Vertica in 2011. With the purchase of Vertica, HP was able to offer its customers the ability to immediately extract meaningful information from large and complex data sets. Hewlett-Packard acquired the data management company Vertica in customers the ability to immediately extract meaningful information storage rchase of Vertica, HP was able to offer its communication mplex data sets. acquisition processing Companies that now purchase this service from HP are experiencing the processing costs of data management