Archive for the ‘HP’ Category
Cisco Cashiers HP from its Partner Ranks
Cisco ripped off HP’s epaulets and broke its sword over its knee last Friday. It’s not going to renew HP’s long-time systems integrator contract when it expires on April 30. That means HP won’t be a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partner anymore because Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partners get [...]
HP & Microsoft Set Off in Search of the Elusive Push-Button Cloud
Claiming to have struck the tightest, most deeply integrated relationship ever seen in the industry – apparently the next best thing to one of them acquiring the other – HP and Microsoft said Wednesday that together they’re going to pour $250 million over the next three years into a new cloud computing venture. Microsoft CEO [...]
No Real Recovery with Europe Still in the Tank: HP
HP, which pre-announced relatively happy results a couple of weeks ago when it said it was buying 3Com, came in exactly on target with earnings of $2.4 billion, or 99 cents a share, up 14%, on revenues of $30.8 billion, down 8.4% year-over-year from $33.6 billion. And the company reiterated that it should do $29.6 [...]
HP Designs New Cloud-Size Server Family
HP Wednesday took the wraps off the first new server family it’s created since the BladeSystem C-class was invented and ran away with the market. The line is call ExSO, short for Extreme Scale-Out, and it’s purpose-built for global low-margin/maximum transaction volume cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC sites looking for a minimum of 1,000 nodes. [...]