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The secret of IT transformation: It's all about the CEO stupid

The secret of IT transformation: It's all about the CEO stupidHP IT transformationTalk to HP employees about how well the IT transformation is going. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who says it's going well. Let's be honest -- Hurd and Mott are all about...

Tags: Games, IT Transformation, Mott, HP-IT, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

HP goes on an IT infrastructure diet

Hewlett-Packard CIO Randy Mott plans to cut the companys global data centers from 85 to 6, collapse more than 762 data marts to 1 enterprise data warehouse and whittle the companys application portfolio from 3,500 to 5,000 to 1,500. The goal: Provide data to help HP become more...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, information technology, IT infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mott, Mark Hurd, data center

Blog posts 2006-12-12

HP cutting IT workforce 58% by 2008

Speaking at a conference in Singapore, HP CIO Randy Mott explained how his company is going to be a poster child for automating IT. The former Dell CIO said HP is targeting a spend of only 25 percent of IT resources on support and the other 75 percent on innovations...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mott, information technology

Blog posts 2006-09-27

Dell's 'chamber of unreasonable requests'

Dell's 'chamber of unreasonable requests'Interesting ...The world's largest producer of Windows boxes and one of the world's most efficient CIOs runs ... Linux? Cool!What are benefits?Quoting:Perhaps more important are the benefits the IT projects provide. Mott says he is tracking $1.6 billion in benefits for the last financial year...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Dell Computer Corp., Mott, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2005-05-05

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HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Motley Crue to release single on 'Rock Band'

Motley Crue to release single on 'Rock Band'Washed up!C'mon! You gotta be kiddin me! If you are going to bring back an 80's band... why not bring back a band that was worth listening to like Mott the Hoople or Bad Company... Mick Ralphs was the best rocker!Besides, I am...

Tags: Games, Motley Crue, Rock Band

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

HP launches data center as a service; The cloud meets outsourcing

Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to launch an effort to offer data center as a service to large enterprise customers. The move is notable for the following reasons: Cloud infrastructure has been primarily focused on small- to mid-sized businesses that have been leveraging companies like...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Service, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

HP takes aim at Teradata with Neoview mousetrap

Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP's Business Intelligence Group. The former general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend--Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing. ...

Tags: Teradata, Hewlett-Packard Co., Neoview, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Data Mining, Research & Development, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-05

HP CEO Mark Hurd offers his formula for fixing IT

Preceded by blasting heavy metal and a new Madonna song "Sorry," with lyrics about being sorry for lying (he didn't choose the music), HP CEO Mark Hurd made his first major appearance in the post-HPGate era. In his OracleWorld keynote address, Hurd started out by saying he hadn't executed a...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd

Blog posts 2006-10-24

HP cutting IT workforce 58ò0by 2008

HP cutting IT workforce 58ò0by 2008Not goodTalk about a shakeup! This is pretty bad.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/Will it work?Is he another accountant taking a gamble with his future or does he actually understand technology?Automating IT?....Better come up with a scheme to automate management and board operations. An AI system that makes decisions...

Tags: Benefits, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology, HP-IT, Randy Mott, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

For the H-P Way, a slap in the face

Why that's H-P's CIO Bill Mott, right in between images of company co-founders David Packard and Bill Hewlett.Time, then, for a history lesson, as well as a lament triggered by some unwelcome news.Back in 1967, the Internet did not exist. The Web was more than a quarter-century in the...

Tags: H-P

Blog posts 2006-06-05

HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIO

HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIONotice the contradiction?HP wants to "extract big success out of more than just its digital imaging and printing group", so that means selling more of their other products and services.The focus of the layoffs: "The hardest hit of HP's ranks, according to...

Tags: Operating systems, Document management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Unix, more-expensive

Discussion threads 2005-07-18

HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIO

I couldn't help but spot the irony in the fact that in the same week that HP announced it would be laying off approximately 15,000 employees, it also announced it would be taking on one new employee who will be getting a compensation package with an estimated worth of $15.3...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Blog posts 2005-07-18

HP gears up for layoffs, reorg

HP gears up for layoffs, reorgGuess that shoots the crap out of an earlier storyZDNET:Tech job cuts down from first quarterhttp://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5788653.htmlHP has lost its identity. There was a time when Hewlett and Packard ran the place when it was a great place to be. Buying Compaq did not...

Tags: Sales strategy, Workforce management, Desktops, Sales force management, Games, layoff, Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-14

Sony ordered to pay $90 million, halt game sales

Sony ordered to pay $90 million, halt game salesAsk Fisher PriceYou might ask Fisher Price, shaking toys that rattle in response to actions is an old field of research.Maybe I don't understand patents, but my understanding is this:1) You invent something2) You're supposed to make and sell your invention3) Making...

Tags: Games, sales, game, patent, Hard Drivin, joystick, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-03-28

Master the Windows XP Registry

This book chapter, excerpted from O'Reilly's Windows XP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition , describes how the Windows Registry works, what's in it, and how to safely add and delete keys and values. It also shows how the Registry is organized and explains the function of many of its most...

Tags: Registry, Chapter, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2005-02-19

Christmas coup at SCO parent

This may mean nothing. But let's talk about it anyway.SCO Group, our favorite bogeyman, is mostly owned by an outfit called the Canopy Group. And two of their top executives, president Ralph Yarro and CFO Darcy Mott, have suddenly left the company.opy owns companies other than SCO. But SCO just...

Tags: SCO Group Inc.

Blog posts 2004-12-24