Category: HP
HP’s Apotheker pushes company’s new growth strategy
At the Tuesday AlwaysON OnDemand conference at their headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Leo Apotheker continued to outline his strategy to outperform rivals including IBM and Oracle. HP intends to increase its involvement in the rapidly expanding cloud computing market by running next-generation data centers for large enterprise customers. According to Apotheker, his goal is “to [...]
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week stepped up its cloud computing effort by launching a portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and indicated plans to jump into public cloud hosting. The company has lacked a strong cloud computing focus but now intends to move forward more aggressively, HP officials said. HP will do so by offering various [...]
HP cloud computing comes to the UK
HP is making its biggest move into cloud computing with the introduction of private and public cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the UK. Unveiling Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute, the company said the new technology allows UK businesses to store and process data in HP datacentres in hosted private clouds or in a multi-tenancy public cloud [...]
HP to invest $1 billion in cloud computing and cut 9,000 jobs
The world’s biggest PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard will cut 9,000 jobs and invest $1 billion to develop the next generation of cloud computing services, according to a statement Tuesday. HP said it will invest $1 billion to create fully automated commercial data centers and expand its enterprise services unit over a multiyear period. The cuts are [...]
How Many Virtual Machines Can Run On A Single Server?
How many user desktops can run on a virtualized server? From a structural point of view, this question has a lot in common with, “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” Nevertheless, I did my best to answer it in the new McGraw-Hill book, Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution. As [...]
Cloud computing and HP
HP (Hewlett Packard) is a California-based computing infrastructure manufacturer and seller, with a product line that ranges from personal computers, peripherals and software to networking and storage equipment. Unlike many big tech firms, which generally tend to be young companies that have sprung up within the last 15 years, the history of Hewlett Packard goes [...]
