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 The New York Post talked to people over the weekend who fanned speculation that Oracle could eventually put an end to the HP muddle with a hostile, grudge-settling bid for the joint.
Its sources presume that HP’s stock price, off another $12 billion in market cap last Friday on its...Aug. 23, 2011 12:04 AM EDT Reads: 2,691 |
 HP is now pulling a 180 in ditching both the PC and Palm hardware business, and making an offer to buy Autonomy, one of the last major independent enterprise content management players, for roughly $11 billion.
HP chose the occasion of its Q3 earnings call to drop the bomb. The compan...Aug. 20, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,770 |
 Hewlett-Packard is reportedly getting ready to spin off the PC unit it acquired when Carly Fiorina bought Compaq and buying Autonomy, Britain’s second-largest software house, for about $10 billion.
The news, which Bloomberg broke, and the Wall Street Journal and Reuters have apparent...Aug. 19, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,751 |
 A-Frame Technology Services on Thursday announced the availability of RentTheCloud.com, a brokerage service that matches companies seeking cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) with cloud vendors. Unlike the uncertainties and risks of conventional approaches to evaluating, selecting, and i...Aug. 14, 2011 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,383 |
 According to a recent study from The NPD Group, a market research company, just 22 percent of U.S. consumers were familiar with the term "cloud computing," which denotes software applications or processes that are accessed from the Internet, rather than on personal computer hard drives...Aug. 9, 2011 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,745 |
 The fact that Dell is going to try to commercialize OpenStack was barely yesterday’s news when HP up and said it’s going join and support the open source cloud infrastructure project.
The word came from HP VP of cloud services Emil Savegh, who used to work for Rackspace, the company ...Jul. 28, 2011 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,353 |
 Palm’s gone.
It’s been transformed into HP’s webOS global business unit. And it’s not being run by Apple émigré Jon Rubenstein anymore either. HP has installed Stephen DeWitt in the job – the guy who sold Colbalt Networks to Sun snookering Scott McNealy and Ed Zander for $2 billion...Jul. 11, 2011 09:24 PM EDT Reads: 2,440 |
 A case study on how Genworth Financial uses HP tools to improve application delivery, performance testing, and operational integrity.
We're going to focus on Genworth Financial, and talk about a number of different products used to improve application delivery, performance testing, an...Jun. 23, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,109 |
 HP shuffled its executive suite again late Monday, claiming that the changes will better align its corporate structure with the cloud strategy CEO Léo Apotheker vaguely sketched out in March.
Ann Livermore, who runs HP’s Enterprise Business, where it gets the bulk of its revenues, ha...Jun. 20, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,317 |
 This enterprise case study discussion focuses on Seagate Technology, where the application development teams are spanning the dev-ops divide and exploiting agile development methodologies.
Seagate is one of the largest manufacturers of rotating media hard disks and we also are into th...Jun. 17, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,630 |
 This enterprise case study focuses on Paychex, a large provider of services to small and medium-sized businesses, and growing rapidly around services for HR, payroll, benefits, tax payments, and quite a few other features.
Please join Joel Karczewski, the Director of IT at Paychex, to...Jun. 16, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,012 |
 HP has updated and expanded its portfolio of infrastructure products and services, debuted a mini, mobile data center called the EcoPOD, unveiled a unique dual cloud bursting capability, and rolled out a family of AppSystems, appliances focused on specific IT solutions like big data an...Jun. 16, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,926 |
 You knew this was coming, right?
After Oracle utterly ignored HP’s demand letter of a week ago insisting that it continue to churn out software for Itanium-based servers that practically nobody but HP sells and even HP doesn’t sell that many of, HP sued Oracle Wednesday in Californ...Jun. 15, 2011 11:39 PM EDT Reads: 3,691 |
 HP has introduced advancements to its CloudSystem solutions with the means for cloud provider and enterprises to accomplish dual cloud bursting, one of the Holy Grails of hybrid computing.
The CloudSystem targets service providers by giving them the ability to allow their enterprise c...Jun. 15, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,789 |
 Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that its Palm-derived webOS TouchPad will go on sale in the US July 1 and a few days later in the UK, Ireland, France and Germany.
Canada will have to wait until mid-July and Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore won’t see it unti...Jun. 13, 2011 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,811 |
 The CloudSystem targets service providers by giving them the ability to allow their enterprise customers to extend their private cloud-based applications bursting capabilities to third-party public clouds too.
HP CloudSystem, announced in January and expanded in the spring with a par...Jun. 11, 2011 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,846 |
 HP is selling its video conferencing unit to Polycom for a that’s-not-much $89 million so Polycom can go off and do battle with Cisco if in fact Cisco stays in the business and so HP can focus on the cloud.
HP’s high-end Halo widgetry never caught on. Maybe it was the $550,000-a-room...Jun. 6, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,330 |
 There is now such a thing as the Open Virtualization Alliance, formed by Red Hat, IBM, Intel, HP, SUSE, Eucalyptus and BMC, to push the adoption of KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine embedded in the Linux kernel that Red Hat’s basing its virtualization on.
The consortium is suppos...May. 23, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,984 |
 So let me get this straight with two quarters of disappointing results at HP under his belt CEO Léo Apotheker finds that he needs to “minimize all hiring” because the company’s headcount plans are “unaffordable given the pressures on our business.”
What a very Mark Hurd thing to sa...May. 16, 2011 08:54 PM EDT Reads: 3,177 |
 As HP unveils it's new FlexNetwork Architecture, they seem to be making a bold statement about the future of corporate networks. And that is that changing requirements are inevitable, so why not build out a network that can support all the new cloud and mobile tricks you know about ......May. 11, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,082 |
 Scott McClellan, the CTO and interim VP of engineering of HP’s new cloud services business, let slip a few details about HP’s otherwise cloudy cloud plans when he updated his LinkedIn profile.
The Register happened to capture them before they were removed.
One of the things that wa...May. 9, 2011 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,324 |
 This seems like a very high-level view of things, focused on storage (which makes sense given HP's recent 3Par acquisition), and revealing nothing that the Chinese or anyone else can or would be able to copy at a level to threaten the company. Nevertheless, here are the highlights of a...May. 6, 2011 05:32 AM EDT Reads: 5,229 |
 The pace of change, degrees of complexity, and explosion around the uses of new devices and increased data sources are placing new requirements and new strain on older data centers. Research shows that a majority of enterprises are either planning for or are in the midst of data center...Apr. 21, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,259 |
 HP CEO Léo Apotheker has gone back to the well again.
He’s named Marty Homlish, one of his old SAP buddies, chief marketing officer of HP and a member of its executive council.
That makes five imports so far.
Homlish, an American stationed in New York and once at Sony where he la...Apr. 21, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,810 |
 Tom Hogan, the executive vice-president of HP’s $57 billion enterprise business sales and marketing, presumably one of the key guys HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker was hoping would stick around, quit Monday to “pursue other interests.”
He is the first member of HP’s top echelon to bolt si...Apr. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,292 |
 Fast-moving trends across the enterprise are pointing to a deeper payoff from the well-managed embrace of hybrid computing models coupled with the secure delivery of applications.
The new research describes how top level enterprise executives are reacting to these fast-moving trends...Apr. 14, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,573 |
 HP was reportedly talking to TIBCO until a couple of weeks ago when something went wrong, Reuters says, quoting a couple of sources “familiar with the matter.” The wire service doesn’t know what went wrong or if they’ll come back to the table. HP is separately known to be snubbing anyt...Apr. 14, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,274 |
 Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive ful...Apr. 12, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 13,799 |
 Egenera just scored a plum.
After a year of working on the deal, the company’s latest PAN Manager software is going to be available on HP’s BladeSystem c-class servers, the leader of the blade pack, creating what Egenera calls “the highest performance, most flexible platform” it’s ev...Apr. 11, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,845 |
 HP on Wednesday appointed Brian Humphries to lead the company’s strategy for accelerating revenue opportunities in the world’s fastest growing economies.
Developing business internationally is one of the key elements of HP’s growth strategy outlined by HP president and chief executive...Mar. 30, 2011 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,038 |
 HP announced on Tuesday a program for channel partners who want to quickly capitalize on rapidly expanding cloud market opportunities with HP’s broad cloud portfolio.
Unveiled at the HP Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the HP CloudSystem Partner Program provides tools for cha...Mar. 29, 2011 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,274 |
 Cloud analytics is a service model in which one or more key element of data analytics is provided through a public or private cloud. Cloud analytics applications and services are typically provided through a subscription-based or utility (pay-per-use) model.
While this will be a usefu...Mar. 29, 2011 03:22 PM EDT Reads: 9,948 |
 Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Yahoo, all big network owners, said Monday that they have formed a standards-setting Open Networking Foundation (ONF) that’ll promote an approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN) that makes networks progra...Mar. 28, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,351 |
 Shell and HP on Thursday announced a breakthrough in the capability of their jointly developed inertial sensing technology to shoot and record seismic data at much higher sensitivity and at ultra-low frequencies.
The new onshore wireless seismic acquisition system is designed to provi...Mar. 23, 2011 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,790 |
 HP strategy gives it a clear direction in cloud computing and execution will be key to success.
After a long trip planning and delivering CloudCamps in India and then Cloudy Awards at Austin, I finally got some time to comment on a big cloud announcement made by HP last week. I missed...Mar. 23, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 8,073 |
 A Reference Architecture (RA) provides a blueprint of a to-be-model with a well-defined scope, requirements it satisfies, and architectural decisions it realizes. By delivering best practices in a standardized, methodical way, an RA ensures consistency and quality across development an...Mar. 15, 2011 11:48 AM EDT Reads: 13,497 |
 We're merging what was customer support, which is a call center, with the Professional Services organization. By merging those two, you get the best of both worlds and provide the service depth where we take accountability for the whole solution.
Nowadays, the focal point for IT opera...Mar. 15, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,125 |
 HP on Tuesday announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication.
This integration enables clients to optimize cloud del...Mar. 8, 2011 08:00 PM EST Reads: 4,693 |
 HP Enterprise Services UK Limited on Monday nnounced that Centrica has signed a seven-year outsourcing services agreement worth more than $400 million.
With the new agreement, HP will enable Centrica to move to a utility-based private cloud computing environment that will support Cent...Mar. 2, 2011 08:00 PM EST Reads: 4,158 |
 HP has integrated 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication.
David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, StorageWorks, HP, stat...Mar. 1, 2011 09:33 AM EST Reads: 3,600 |
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