Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
HP on Monday took direct aim at the ever-increasing costs of data centers and managing an explosion of data by announcing a new generation of automated and efficient hardware. The new generation of ProLiant servers includes better internal management, powerful automation features, and ...
HP Monday claimed to have the most self-sufficient line of servers, the x86-based HP ProLiant Generation 8, the first fruits of a two-year Project Voyager meant to eliminate error-prone, downtime-creating manual tasks and cut data center costs.
HP says it’s spent $300 million on Gen8...
In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud.
Last week, HP delivered HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) Content Pack 10, bringing with the ability to better manage cloud instances across t...
HP LoadRunner Hits the Cloud
HP, HP reseller Orasi Software and Skytap have teamed up to offer HP’s LoadRunner software turnkey on Orasi new CloudPerform environment to do load and performance testing in Skytap’s hybrid cloud.
It’s the first time LoadRunner has been available on...
HP has dispensed with the services of former Palm CEO and pivotal Apple graduate Jon Rubinstein, according to AllThingsDigital.
Rubinstein has been like a man without a country since HP, after spending billions on the stuff decided it couldn’t go toe to toe with Apple and Google, and...
Apple was the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4, pushing HP off its perch, according to Canalys, which unlike Gartner and IDC, doesn’t hesitate to lump tablets in with desktops, netbooks and notebooks.
It says that since Apple shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Mac...
Seems just the other day – actually it was two weeks ago – that we divined that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped, then open sourced – life’s funny like that – in shape to publ...
HP has named Bill Veghte its chief strategy officer, replacing CTO Shane Robison who was ousted three months ago.
Veghte, who used to run the $15 billion Windows unit at Microsoft, joined HP in 2010 as head of software, a job he will keep. He is also supposed to head HP’s cloud and we...
Between unimaginative products, competition from tablets and smartphones, the flood-created squeeze on hard drives and high prices, PC shipments dropped somewhere between 0.2% and 1.4% in the fourth quarter compared to 4Q10 according to IDC and Gartner. IDC is the more optimistic one. ...
France’s antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence Tuesday refused to order Oracle to keep on supporting Itanium with its software on grounds there was no immediate threat to HP although it has clearly hurt its sales. However, the regulator promised HP it will continue investigati...
The TouchPad tablet that HP brought to market last year only to kill it a few weeks later for lack of sales was doomed to fail according a story in the New York Times Tuesday.
HP subsequently wrote off a nasty $1.6 billion to cover the cost of its folly. It had paid $1.2 billion in m...
HP is expanding its Big Data analytics appliance alliance with SAP, moving SAP’s HANA in-memory database widgetry to its BladeSystem.
Used to query multiple types of SAP and non-SAP data sources in near-real-time or batch, HANA hasn’t been on blades before – unless you count Hitachi’...
Unable to turn a buck on the thing after killing the tablet and smartphones it was meant to power, HP said Friday that it’s going to open source webOS, the mobile operating system it got last year when it bought Palm for a sweet $1.2 billion.
It claims there is still an “opportunity ...
Last Friday Oracle amended its countersuit against HP over their Itanium flap claiming it was tricked into settling the suit HP filed over ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd joining Oracle a month after he was ousted from HP.
Oracle wants the agreement canceled.
HP claims the agreement includes a...
Microsoft and HP’s enterprise services arm have buddied up on the cloud for the next four years.
HP’s Enterprise Cloud Services, the company’s IaaS widgetry, will host Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010. HP will also host Office 365 for its pr...
The last of the discontinued HP TouchPads, which created an unexpected feeding frenzy when retailers like Best Buy marked their inventory down to $99.99 in August, are supposed to go on sale this Sunday around 7pm ET on HP’s eBay store after HP employees have first crack at however man...
HP – which, remember, was supposed to restrain its impulse to buy things except for maybe a few little acquisitions while it rebuilds its balance sheet – is buying 20-year-old HiFlex Software GmbH, which does web-to-print and management information systems. HP didn’t say what it’s payi...
HP at the Discover 2011 Conference in Vienna last week announced a wide range of new Cloud Solutions designed to advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds for enterprises, service providers, and governments. Based on HP Converged Infrastructure, the new and updated HP Clo...
Former HP chairman Patricia Dunn, who resigned after being enveloped by the pretexting scandal in which private investigators Dunn hired obtained the phone records of journalists and its own board on the sly in an effort stop leaks from the boardroom to the press, has died according to...
Autonomy’s new owner announced its first real-time Autonomy software, called Autonomy IDOL 10, available December 1, a surprisingly short eight weeks after the deal closed. It’s reportedly capable of integrating – as HP suggested it would be – with HP’s more conventional Vertica acquis...
Back in the olden days, when cloud was still a young thing and not everybody’s middle name, back before the Apotheker distractions and false trails, and before HP, in catch-up mode, started indiscriminately trying to be all things cloud to everybody, it simply wanted to sell its widget...
Goosed by Oracle – which has refused to port any more of its software to the Itanium chip signally used by HP – HP announced an oddly named Odyssey Project that’s supposed to unify Unix and x86 server architectures.
Oracle claims Itanium has reached the end of its life – although Int...
HP Monday reported a better-than-expected $1.17 a share excluding items, down 12% year-over year, on $32.3 billion in non-GAAP revenues, up 1%, in its closely watched fiscal fourth quarter ended on October 31. Wall Street only expected to see $1.13 on $32.05 billion. HP’s own guidance ...
Activist investor Relational Investors LLC has reportedly taken a ~1% position in Hewlett-Packard and its co-founder Ralph Whitworth has gotten a seat on the inimitably dysfunctional HP board. His appointment will raise the number of seats to 14.
According to Bloomberg Whitworth took ...
HP is evaluating whether to keep its webOS software platform or sell it for what could be hundreds of millions of dollars according to what four people “close to the matter” told Reuters.
One of them said Oracle might be interested.
Oracle and HP aren’t exactly on the best of t...
HP confirmed Tuesday that it’s going into the ARM microserver business starting with a development platform dubbed Redstone built around the quad-core 32-bit ARM chip developed by ARM-backed Texas start-up Calxeda.
The secret that it will peddle ARM servers leaked last week.
Calxeda...
HP has reversed the unpopular, hastily considered, board of directors-blessed decision to dump its $40 billion PC unit that its now purged CEO Leo Apotheker announced in August.
The company said Thursday afternoon right after Wall Street closed that it would keep the business, expect...
Hewlett-Packard is planning to sell ARM-based servers and is working with Calxeda (née Smooth-Stone), the three-year-old Texas start-up partially owned by ARM, on the boxes, according to Bloomberg, which got it from “two people familiar with the matter.” The Dow Jones is saying the sam...
After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server.
HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which ru...
HP said late Thursday that its chief strategy and technology officer Shane Robison, regarded by many inside the company as a big part of its problems, would be retiring (read he was asked) come November 1. “In an effort to drive strategy, research and development closer to the company’...
Gartner says global PC shipments rose 3.2% in the third quarter to 91.8 million units, which is a lot given the deplorable world economy but the number doesn’t meet the researcher’s projection of 5.1%, suggesting that Gartner was overly exuberant.
It probably won’t come as news to an...
HP is poised to backtrack on the notion of spinning off its $40 billion PC business according to the Wall Street Journal.
The paper heard that “recent analyses by Hewlett-Packard and its top advisers indicate that the costs of spinning off HP’s personal-computer business might outweig...
HP is going to decide whether it will spin off its giant PC unit by the end of the month according to what CEO Meg Whitman told a women’s leadership conference on Tuesday.
“It’s a decision I want to make much faster than my predecessor,” Bloomberg reported her saying. “I want to make...
HP went through with that surprise $10 billion-plus cash acquisition of British software company Autonomy on Monday after the requisite number of Autonomy’s hysterically happy shareholders pledged HP their shares.
None of HP’s shareholders think the excessively expensive deal, which ...
Oracle narrowly vaulted Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday when it reported its first fiscal quarter.
Its results encouraged people to think budgets aren’t in lockdown mode.
Revenues were up 12% to $8.37 billion returning a non-GAAP EPS of 48 cents a share, up 14%, against estimate...
The stock market in New York was closed all of five minutes Thursday when HP’s board announced that it had stripped Léo Apotheker of his epaulets and swagger stick and named Meg Whitman president and chief executive officer.
Ray Lane, who put Whitman on the HP board in January, was n...
Léo Apotheker’s brief inglorious reign at HP only has hours left to run insiders say.
He will be ousted in absentia since nobody seems to know – or care – where he is. He will be the third HP CEO in a row to be fired and the shortest lived.
The board’s next available window to annou...
According to the recent report of China-telecommunications.com, HP's board ousted CEO Leo Apotheker and appointed the former CEO of eBay Meg Whitman to succeed Apotheker. This is HP's third time to fire CEO in six years.
HP's chairman Ray Ryan said, we are very grateful for Leo Apothe...
Bloomberg and the Dow Jones blog All Things Digital reported simultaneously Wednesday morning that the HP board was meeting – in an unscheduled two-day meeting, mind you – to consider dumping CEO Léo Apotheker. The New York Times quickly picked up the chant.
HP’s poor abused stock, d...
Apparently HP doesn’t trust its own CEO to speak in public anymore.
Not after his disastrous stock-crippling performance August 18 when he announced that HP would spin off its $41 billion PC unit, kill its newborn webOS devices and buy an unknown British software company for most of ...
