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Greenpeace Calls Out HP for Backtracking on Toxics Usage

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

UPDATED: Ecology activists claim that IT giant Hewlett-Packard is doing an about-face on its public statements about eliminating key toxic chemicals in its printers, computers, servers and storage products by the end of 2009.
– Greenpeace activists snuck past Hewlett-Packard security guards July 28 to paint
a large quot;Hazardous Products quot; sign on the roof of the IT system
maker’s main building in Palo Alto, Calif., in a public effort to call out the
company for what it sees as a corporate about-face on the use of…

IBM Buys Ounce Labs, Could Challenge HP

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

IBM acquires Ounce Labs to build out its application testing capabilities. The purchase, which follows continued growth in the market, may trigger a reaction from HP and other vendors.
– IBM has acquired Ounce Labs to bolster
its application testing abilities.
The move underscores the demand
for vulnerability testing, which analysts say has continued to grow even in the
face of an economic downturn. According to Gartner, the market for both dynamic
and static testing has grow…

HP Scores Medical Win

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Cancer Treatment Centers of America upgrade to HP ProLiant servers, deploying more than 500 servers across hospitals in suburban Chicago, Philadelphia, Tulsa and suburban Phoenix.
– Cancer Treatment Centers of America
(CTCA), a national network of hospitals, has upgraded its entire
technology infrastructure to
HP ProLiant servers. The technology upgrade is designed to increase system performance,
uptime and reliability.
The hospitals depend on technology infrastructure for…

HP Scores Medical Win

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Cancer Treatment Centers of America upgrades to HP ProLiant servers, deploying more than 500 Hewlett-Packard servers across hospitals in suburban Chicago, Philadelphia, suburban Phoenix, and Tulsa, Okla.
– Cancer Treatment Centers of America,
a national network of hospitals, has upgraded its entire technological
infrastructure to HP ProLiant servers. The technology upgrade is expected to
increase system performance, uptime and reliability.
The hospitals depend on such infrastructure in order to op…

HP Takes Data Center Transformation Services on the Road

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Using their own experiences in consolidating 85 data centers into six, HP officials have spent the past year meeting with customers to help them start thinking about what is involved in transforming their data centers into dynamic, efficient and cost-effect facilities. Most customers talk about virtualization and cloud computing, but HP officials say there is a lot more to it than that.
– MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Three years ago, Hewlett-Packard officials announced an ambitious data center consolidation plan that would reduce the number of facilities worldwide from 85 to six.
The project not only has given HP a much more cost-effective, efficient and dynamic data center environment, but i…

HP Scales Storage Offerings with Ibrix Acquisition

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

HP is bolstering its StorageWorks offerings through the purchase of storage software maker Ibrix. Ibrixs Fusion software is aimed at computing environments with massive storage demands, including high-performance computing and cloud computing. HP already uses Ibrix in its StorageWorks SANs and ProLiant servers, as well as its BladeSystems and ProCurve networking switches.
– Hewlett-Packard is growing its scalable storage capabilities through the acquisition of storage software maker Ibrix.
The deal was announced July 17. Financial terms were not disclosed.
HP officials said the acquisition will bolster the companys ability
to offer scalable storage solutions to ente…

HP Number One Worldwide, Dell on Top in the U.S.

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

HP beat Dell in worldwide PC shipments for the second quarter of 2009, but in the U.S. market, aggressive pricing enabled Dell to take the lead. Acer followed in third position in the U.S., with a neck-and-neck Apple and Toshiba vying for the next two spots.
– Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, Garter is reporting. The number represents a 5 percent decline from the second quarter of 2008.

IDC, in a separate July 15 report, estimates second quarter 2009 numbers including desktops and portable PCs but ex…

HP Number One Worldwide, Dell on Top in the U.S.

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

IDC, in a separate July 15 report, estimates second quarter 2009 numbers including desktops and portable PCs but ex…

HP Makes Pitch to Sun Customers Prior to Oracle Vote

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

HP is rolling out its new Complete Sun Care program in hopes of luring away Sun customers ahead of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. The HP program includes a variety of services, support programs and financial incentives designed to convince customers to migrate to HP technology. HPs announcement comes the same day that Sun shareholders are gathering to vote on whether to accept Oracles $7.4 billion offer for Sun.
– On the day that Sun Microsystems shareholders are voting on Oracles
proposed $7.4 billion acquisition, rival Hewlett-Packard is making a
pitch to Sun customers.
HP on July 16 announced a new program of services, support plans and
financial incentives designed to entice Sun customers to migrate t…

HP Announces Payback Guarantee for Managed Print Services

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Two programs from HP aim to help businesses reduce their overall printing costs–and the company said it would pay back the difference if their customers don’t reach the savings goal HP projected.
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Technology giant Hewlett-Packard introduced two offerings the company said would help enterprises cut printing costs, the HP Printing Payback Guarantee and the HP Page Plan. The payback guarantee states if qualified enterprise customers do not reach their projected savings goals within 12 months…

Cisco, HP Clash Over Networking Equipment Pricing

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

HP is looking to focus the debate around its networking equipment competition with Cisco around price. HP ProCurve officials say they are pleased about reports that Cisco may be asking some partners to match prices with HP. However, Cisco officials deny any such program is in place, saying instead that they are competing based on value and not price. If HP can keep the focus on price, it could help it gain ground against Cisco now that the global recession has put a tight squeeze on IT budgets.
– The friction between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems is continuing, this time in the area of networking equipment.
Specifically, the issue is the pricing of the networking equipment. HP officials are pointing to comments some Cisco officials made during the companys Partner Summit in June as an i…

HP, Acer Developing Google Chrome OS Netbooks, Schmidt Says

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

HP and Acer netbooks running Googles new Chrome OS could be available as soon as this year, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt announced at the annual Allen Co. conference. Chrome OS may give Schmidt reason to leave Apples board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor.
– Netbooks running Chrome OS, Googles newly announced operating system, may
be available later this year, according to a report from Reuters, which
quoted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the Allen amp; Co. media and
technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho,
on July 9.

Â“Everybody wev…