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- HP CTO predicts the future of technology
- Russ Daniels, CTO of cloud services strategy for Hewlett-Packard, predicts that in the coming years, technology will move towards being customizable for every aspect of our lives. At the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, he discusses with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group, what the barriers to this...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., CTO, Technology, Strategy, Management, Russ Daniels, Hewlett-Packard, Interop
- Videos 2009-05-26
- HP's expanding software portfolio
- Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP’s software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...
- Tags: IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- HP takes out Opsware for $1.6 billion
- Hewlett-Packard beefed up its data center software business with a $1.6 billion acquisition of Opsware. Opsware makes automation software that puts many data center operations on autopilot. HP, looking to become a big player in the area, said it is paying $14.25 a share for Opsware, which closed Friday at...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Intel: Penryn at the ready?
- Some signs are pointing to an effort by Intel attempting to bring out its 45-nanometer Penryn processors during the fourth quarter. (And no, I’m not just messing around with the office's Magic 8 Ball.)Normally, when Intel is planning to introduce a processor early in the coming year, it Intel begins...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, quad-core processors, multicore processors, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Desktops, Dell, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Analyst: BEA Systems' end game is near
- A Credit Suisse analyst thinks BEA Systems is likely to go on the auction block in the next three to six months. And the potential buyer is two likely suspects: Private equity firms or Oracle, which indicated it has no plans to slow down its acquisition pace. Here's what Credit...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Printer ink price war may be underway; Lexmark takes hit
- Lexmark is getting whacked by a potential inkjet price war. The printer manufacturer said Monday that its second quarter results will fall way short of expectations. The company said its shortfall is because of lower operating income in its consumer business."This shortfall is primarily due to less than expected inkjet...
- Tags: Printers, Personal Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- HP buys SPI Dynamics
- Hewlett-Packard said it will acquire SPI Dynamics for an undisclosed sum as security companies are quickly gobbled up. IBM recently acquired Watchfire in a similar deal. Meanwhile, companies such as RSA Security and ISS have also been acquired by EMC and IBM, respectively. SPI assesses the security of software code....
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Security, Hewlett-Packard, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costs
- A who's who list of Silicon Valley titans are joining forces to set aggressive goals to cut computer energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group, collectively called the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, consists of Intel, AMD, Google, EDS, EMC, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Microsoft to name a...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft, IT Management, Intel, Innovation, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, Google, General, EMC, EDS, Dell, Datacenter, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- HP wins big NASA contract
- Hewlett-Packard was awarded a seven-year $5.6 billion contract by NASA to deliver technology to other U.S. federal agencies.Under a NASA contract--dubbed the unwieldy NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement SEWP IV Class 5--HP will offer desktops, workstations and Linux and Unix blade PCs, servers and printers. The amount of gear to...
- Tags: Government, Hardware Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- HP lays out component pricing landscape
- Much of Hewlett-Packard's earnings were a done deal due to the company's preannouncement, but there were a host of little nuggets from the conference call that are notable. For starters, HP CEO Mark Hurd gave his outlook on component pricing, which can be a window to PC pricing, and addressed...
- Tags: Dell, Hardware Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- HP: Business is just swell
- Hewlett-Packard upped its second quarter outlook Tuesday after an internal email about its financial results was leaked to a "single outside party." HP said in a statement: "The company determined that the most prudent course of action under these unusual...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple has taken its share of environmental hits and CEO Steve Jobs has had enough. And hes willing to throw HP and Dell under the Prius while hes at it. In a blog post dubbed "A Greener Apple" Jobs outlines...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Rackable: New CEO; same old woes
- Rackable Systems said former CA CTO Mark J. Barrenechea will take over as CEO of Rackable Systems, the beleaguered server and storage system maker. Barrenechea had been on the Rackable board, according to a statement. He resigned as CTO of CA last May following an exodus...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dell, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- HP: IT as we know it is over
- Hewlett-Packard executives believe that a tipping point has been reached, and we are entering a new era. Technology is moving into a new context--IT as we know it is over," Deborah Nelson, HP’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Alliances Technology Solutions Group. What comes next is "Business Technology." ...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Apple U.S. market share hits 5 percent
- Fueled by a 30 percent year-over-year growth rate Apple shipments hit 741,000 units in the first quarter, up from 570,000 units from a year ago. And according to Gartner, that tally equates to 5 percent market share in the U.S....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- HP desktop takes VIA's C7 processor to China
- Hewlett-Packard may be the only brand-name PC maker to offer all three of the world’s major x86 processors in its desktops. That’s right. All three. HP, in China, has launched a dx2020 desktop that incorporates VIA Technologies’ C7-D processor, News.com’s Michael Kanellos has written. VIA, which established itself...
- Tags: VIA Technologies, Uncategorized, semiconductors, Hewlett-Packard, Desktops
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- HP talks with Vera Wang's hands
- For the last several quarters, HP has been on a roll. CEO Mark Hurd is credited with turning the company around after the Carly Fiorina era, despite the tawdry pretexting scandal. During this rehabilitation period, HP has also had an image makeover. The stodgy company that liked to talk about...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- AMD's perfect storm
- Advanced Micro Devices appears to have sailed straight into a perfect storm. The chipmaker today updated its outlook for the first quarter. It’s an outlook that’s not good. AMD expects to post revenue of about $1.2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Thats a year-to-year decline of more than...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, processor price cuts, Nvidia, notebooks, multicore processors, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Desktops, Dell, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- HP says gaming will drive Vista adoption the most, shows off next gen gaming technologies
- I just got back from HPs Gaming Summit at Dogpatch Studios, which showcased some rather nifty gaming technologies from HP Labs (video is coming.)During a panel discussion, Rahul Sood, chief technology officer at HP Gaming, and founder of Voodoo PC said that next generation PC games based on Microsofts new...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Adventures in wireless
- This is a blog about hardware. But sometimes it’s the software that really gets in the way. I spent time last night setting up a wireless router for a friend who recently purchased two shiny new computers. One, his machine, is a MacBook Pro. The other—which we’ll call “hers”—is a...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, notebooks, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, dual-core processors, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
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