When negotiating an outsourcing contract, the tendency is to try to "box in the vendor" in an effort to cover every possible scenario that may transpire in the relationship — but that's not the way to go, said an executive with Canada's TD Bank Financial Group at a recent outsourcing forum.
PC shipments in the United States took a sharp hit in the first quarter of 2008 due to a sluggish economy, and some analysts don't see it getting a whole lot better this year.
Virtualisation is the name of the game for the Bank of New Zealand, which expects to phase out around 500 servers after purchasing two high-end Z series computers from IBM.
IT industry giant HP is experiencing marked growth of its security business less than a year after re-launching a number of its products and services under its Secure Advantage brand, company executives claim.
Hewlett-Packard is to acquire Tower Software, an Australian document and records management software vendor which has clients in New Zealand.
HP is offering $A3.39 (NZ$4.29) per share for Tower, whose local customers include Hutt City Council and Wanganui District Council. Tower’s three major shareholders, which include private equity firm Quadrant, have agreed to sell.
Current datacentre numbers and infrastructures are unsustainable, said HP at its Technology@work conference in Barcelona.
As more medium-sized companies consolidate their storage, Hewlett-Packard has seized an opportunity with a disk array it says is easier to work with than large-enterprise gear, but delivers more capabilities than entry-level storage.
Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its Integrity BladeSystems with a new model designed to handle memory- and CPU-intensive applications.
HP's latest quartly results show that the vendor is generating an increasing amount of its business outside the US, and theat the Asia-Pacific region showed one of the biggest increases in revenue in the world for the quarter, which ended on January 31.
HP has announced new SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.
Cutting costs will continue to be a top priority at Hewlett-Packard for the foreseeable future, as the company aims to offer infrastructure and services to capitalise on what it sees as a US$1.2 trillion (NZ$1.54 trillion) market in digital content, HP CEO Mark Hurd said yesterday.
The blade server teams at HP and IBM are fighting it out over I/O virtualisation. Last month, IBM unveiled an I/O virtualisation tool called Open Fabric Manager Monday, claiming it one-ups HP's Virtual Connect because IBM uses open technology that's compatible with switches from multiple vendors.
HP has a local team of 20 to promote its new unified communications offering with Microsoft, which had its New Zealand launch in Auckland yesterday.
As part of its efforts to support energy-efficient computing, HP has signed an agreement to acquire facilities consulting firm EYP Mission Critical Facilities.
Wal-Mart’s adoption of HP’s Neoview data warehouse and Oracle’s price optimisation application signals just how seriously large enterprise software vendors are taking the retail management market.