If you are confused about Hewlett-Packard’s cloud plan of action, this week’s guest will lay it out for you. Bill Hilf, the…
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HP fine-tunes its multi-cloud pitch
It must be really interesting to work at Hewlett-Packard these days. Not only is the company breaking itself in half, it’s making multi-billion-dollar…
Read MoreSooooo, what’s new with HP’s cloud strategy?
Look! Hewlett-Packard is doing something with Eucalyptus after all, at least according to a new web page touting HP Helion Eucalyptus, the “Open.…
Read MoreHP reportedly mulling purchase of Aruba Networks
Well, it’s been a while since Hewlett-Packard made a really big acquisition but it sounds like the IT giant is shaking off…
Read MoreHP reorgs cloud biz as Marten Mickos cedes key responsibilities
Marten Mickos, the former Eucalyptus CEO who became HP’s top cloud guy in September when HP bought Eucalyptus, is turning over key responsibilities to…
Read MoreNext up from the Obama Administration: A new cybersecurity agency
If you don’t think threats to private data are a problem, you’re not paying attention. Breaches occur seemingly by the day, although…
Read MoreHP’s Whitman snagged $19M+ in compensation last year
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman got a pretty good pay boost last year, receiving more than $19.5 million in total compensation for fiscal 2014, ending October…
Read MoreThat’s gotta hurt: HP to offer Xeon-based Superdome servers
In a bow to reality, Hewlett-Packard will offer versions of its SuperDome and NonStop servers running Intel Xeon instead of Itanium chips.…
Read MoreFormer HP CEO Carly Fiorina weighs White House bid
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who engineered its $25 billion acquisition of Compaq, is considering another top job: President of the United States…
Read MoreHP CEO: Biggest corporate split-up ever is no distraction
HP's braintrust says the largest corporate divorce in history is no distraction and even argued it was a good focusing exercise.…
Read MoreHP’s Helion OpenStack is here
If you want an HP-branded OpenStack or an HP-branded Cloud Foundry, you are in luck: Both are available today with support from friends Docker, New Relic, MongoDB.…
Read MoreWith HP and eBay breakups already underway, could Cisco be next?
In its present state, Cisco is too big and slow to compete in a downsizing world of IT vendors, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue.…
Read MoreDon’t write off that HP-EMC merger just yet
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning's Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP's impending split into two public companies.…
Read MoreHP is better not together — company to split into enterprise and PC/printer businesses
It's true. The HP IT giant is dividing into two smaller, but still large entities, one focusing on enterprise IT, the other on PCs and printers.…
Read MoreYowza: EMC mulled merger with HP and possibly others, according to report
The Wall Street Journal reports that EMC and HP seriously discussed a "merger of equals," but talks broke down over fear that shareholders would not swallow the deal.…
Read MoreWhich of the cloud companies will be the next to go?
Eucalpytus: Bought. Metacloud: Bought. Enovance: Bought. What does the future hold for Cloudscaling, Piston Cloud, Mirantis et al?…
Read MoreDoes Eucalyptus give HP carte blanche on AWS compatibility?
Now that the deal's done, here comes the nitty gritty. Did HP buy Eucalyptus to get the keys to the Amazon Web Services kingdom? Or is it an aqui-hire?…
Read MoreHP joins the Hadoop backers club, pours $50M into Hortonworks
Another day, another Hadoop investment. This time, it's Hewlett-Packard bankrolling Hortonworks to the tune of $50 million. Your move, Cloudera.…
Read MoreHP snags Clorox CIO as its own
HP's Enterprise unit gets a new CIO in industry vet Ralph Loura who previously led IT efforts at The Clorox Company, Medicis, and Symbol Technologies.…
Read MoreHP and shareholder groups settle and agree to turn legal sights on former Autonomy execs
Legal combatants agree to put their differences aside and pursue former Autonomy CEO and CFO for alleged wrongdoing.…
Read MoreWhich legacy IT company CEO has the worst job in tech? Meg Whitman or Ginni Rometty?
HP CEO Meg Whitman and her counterpart at IBM Ginni Rometty both took over huge companies at the crossroads but under drastically different circumstances. So who has it worse?…
Read MoreQualcomm buys major mobile patent portfolio from HP, including Palm patents
Qualcomm just picked up a big trove of mobile-related patents from HP, which could signal a new escalation in the ongoing intellectual property battles in the mobile industry.…
Read MoreHP just can’t quit Windows 7
More trouble in paradise? HP continues its love-hate affair with Microsoft, promoting sale of discounted PCs running a four-year-old version of Windows.…
Read MoreHP getting back in the smartphone market with a pair of “phablets”
Confirming reports from last month, HP is re-entering the smartphone market. Expect a pair of "phablets" running Android 4.2 to launch in India, where the market for large-screened smartphones is growing quickly.…
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