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  • HP launches second beta of IaaS cloud tools

    HP launched a second beta of the cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially as the company prepares to enter the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).

  • HP's Meg Whitman in China to reaffirm PC commitment

    HP chief executive Meg Whitman has reaffirmed the company?s commitment to its PC business, and has promised that HP?s newly created Printers and Personal Systems (PPS) division will get ?more than its fair share? of R&D investment in the coming years.

  • HP to partner with F5 to speed delivery of cloud apps

    HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5.

  • HP unveils multifunction mobile printer

    HP has launched what it claims is the world?s first mobile all-in-one printer, allowing business users to print, copy and scan documents while on the go.

  • HP launches ultrabook for the enterprise

    HP has today launched its first business-class ultrabook, the EliteBook Folio 9470m, with a thin and light design that aims to tap into the consumerisation trend while still providing enterprise functionality and security features.

  • HP CEO Meg Whitman pledges dramatic boost in R&D

    HP?s CEO and president Meg Whitman has announced a commitment to boosting investment in research and development (R&D), declaring that innovation at the company was ?alive and well?. Whitman said that HP would be focusing on three areas ? what she referred to as ?three corporate bets? ? namely, cloud computing, security and information optimisation.

  • HP delivers power over Ethernet with all-in-one zero client

    HP has launched a new zero client which uses ?one wire? technology to deliver power over Ethernet.

  • Facebook open source data centre project gains strength

    Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

  • Dell brings 40-Gigabit Ethernet into its PowerEdge blade system

    Dell will flesh out its new virtual networking strategy at Interop next month when it shows off a 40-Gigabit Ethernet switch for its PowerEdge M1000e blade system, extends its management software and shows its equipment working with the OpenFlow standard for SDN (software-defined networking).

  • Opsview update challenges Tivoli and Openview

    IT monitoring provider Opsview has launched a new version of its monitoring platform, in a bid to take market share from established products, including HP Openview and IBM Tivoli.

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  • Microsoft System Center 2012 switch simplifies virtual systems management duties

    Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System Center 2012 to manage and monitor applications and the infrastructure that supports them.

  • Private cloud storage - Is there a best way to set up your solution?

    Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private cloud almost always require different approaches.

  • Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

  • Data centre efficiency: The metrics that matter

    Data centre efficiency has become the holy grail of IT professionals. Virtualisation, together with public and private cloud and rising energy costs have changed the nature of enterprise IT, highlighting new opportunities and challenges.

  • Can Big Data be used to catch network invaders?

    The buzz in security circles about "Big Data" goes something like this: If the enterprise could only unite its security-related event data with a warehouse of business information, it could analyse this Big Data to catch intruders trying to steal sensitive information.

  • HP announcements and missed opportunities

    HP's products unveiled recently range from an enhanced server line to a new range of thin clients to the first all-in-one workstation. What's missing is an HP corporate story along with what may be the major competitive opportunity. Let me explain.

  • HP Software CTO: brokers will spur cloud adoption

    Cloud computing growth will be driven by the proliferation of cloud brokerages, offering packages of cloud services from a selection of different providers and adding value through managed access or enhanced security.

  • Five mobile technologies that didn't change the world

    Here are the five mobile technologies unveiled last year with promises that they would change the mobile world, but didn't.

  • Protecting your organisation's intellectual property

    Global healthcare provider Best Doctors employs the most robust technologies and practices available to protect the privacy of its members' personal data - but that's just a part of doing business in this industry. Less obvious but equally important is the degree of vigilance with which the company protects its brand name, which is trademarked in dozens of countries worldwide.

  • What's next for Dell?

    Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

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