HP has acquired LeftHand Networks Inc., a storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions company for $360 million in cash. LeftHand Networks’ solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data
Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks is privately held and headquartered in Boulder, [...]
All Posts Tagged With: "HP"
HP acquires LeftHand networks for $360 million
HP announces massive layoffs as EDS acquisition completes
As HP integrates it’s acquisition of EDS, the company has announced restructuring of it’s combined workforce. HP will shed approximately 7.5 percent! of it’s employees or about 24600 heads. About half of the reductions will occur in the United States. HP says it will provide employees affected by this restructuring program with severance packages, counseling [...]
September 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP acquires Colubris Networks, adds to 802.11n portfolio
HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based, privately-held company building intelligent wireless networks for enterprises and service providers.
HP plans to integrate the Colubris [...]
Pig in the clouds!
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments.
The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally [...]
HP POD - HP’s answer to Sun’s Blackbox
HP has announced a container-based data center offering similar to Sun’s Project Blackbox/Modular Data Center S20. Called the POD - Performance Optimized Data Center, the mobile data center enables customers to expand their data center capacity in support of their IT and business growth without the need to create a separate physical facilities to accommodate [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP introduces touchscreen PC’s
HP today announced touch enabled PC’s for home use. The new HP TouchSmart family of PCs feature HP software designed for touch. A finger tapped or swept across the high-resolution screen delivers quick access to information, entertainment and social networks. This will allow users to perform most common operations without using a keyboard or mouse [...]
June 12th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP labs announces sustainable IT initiatives
HP labs today announced new initiatives since it’s restructuring effort to streamline research projects. The new direction for HP Labs is to pursue 20 to 30 large research projects – instead of the 150 smaller projects in the past – based on insight gained from newly expanded relationships with universities, partners, customers and venture capitalists.
The [...]
Windows Live Search toolbar to be available on 2009 consumer PC’s from HP
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search engine setting in the [...]
June 2nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP introduces 2-in-1 server
HP has introduced a first of a kind 2-in-1 server. The HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade extends HP’s technology infrastructure portfolio aimed at “scale-out” computing and storage environments such as those used in cloud computing, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing deployments.
HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade features include
Blade cage and 2 server blades that are identical [...]
May 30th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
HP goes green on printing
Hewlett-Packard became another “Greenophile” company on Thursday, at least in its Imaging and Printing Group. With an enterprise printing assessment service and carbon calculator, launch of an HP inkjet printer made entirely from recycled materials and an environmentally sensitive policy governing paper manufacturing, HP would be leading the charge in reducing carbon footprint for [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
HP’s Q2 profit up, margins rise due to non-US demand
HP Reported Second Quarter 2008 results today. Highlights from the quarter are as follows - net revenue up 11%, or $2.7 billion, from a year earlier to $28.3 billion , GAAP operating profit up 22% to $2.6 billion; $0.80 earnings per share, up from $0.65 a year earlier and non-GAAP operating profit up 22% to [...]
May 20th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedHP in talks to buy EDS for over $12B
According to Wall Street Journal, Hewlett-Packard is closing negotiations to buy information technology services provider Electronic Data Systems. Expected sale price is to fall between $12 - $13 billion.
EDS stock prices were up 28% to close at 24.13. HPQ closed down 5%.
Sphere: Related Content
May 12th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
