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HP Under Investigation in Germany & Russia for Bribery

HP’s Russian headquarters in Moscow were tossed Wednesday by the investigative arm of the Prosecutor General’s Office at the request of German authorities according to reports by both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. It appears from the story the Journal has managed to piece together that German prosecutors in Dresden are investigating whether HP [...]

Cisco Cashiers HP from its Partner Ranks

Cisco ripped off HP’s epaulets and broke its sword over its knee last Friday. It’s not going to renew HP’s long-time systems integrator contract when it expires on April 30. That means HP won’t be a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partner anymore because Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partners get [...]

HP & Microsoft Set Off in Search of the Elusive Push-Button Cloud

Claiming to have struck the tightest, most deeply integrated relationship ever seen in the industry – apparently the next best thing to one of them acquiring the other – HP and Microsoft said Wednesday that together they’re going to pour $250 million over the next three years into a new cloud computing venture. Microsoft CEO [...]

HP on the Verge of Reorganizing: WSJ

HP is close to moving its printer unit into its PC unit according to an unconfirmed, unattributed piece in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, which would mean redoing what CEO Mark Hurd undid when he got there to shake the Carly dust off the company. The reorg reportedly just needs Hurd’s imprimatur. The move would [...]

HP Designs New Cloud-Size Server Family

Blades are passé; Trays are in HP Wednesday took the wraps off the first new server family it’s created since the BladeSystem C-class was invented and ran away with the market. The line is call ExSO, short for Extreme Scale-Out, and it’s purpose-built for global low-margin/maximum transaction volume cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC sites looking [...]

HP Forced To Bench Poached EMC Exec

HP Forced To Bench Poached EMC Exec EMC has clipped the wings of the erstwhile president of its storage division David Donatelli, who suddenly resigned last Monday and tried to flit to rival HP to run its storage, servers and networking. EMC sued to enforce his one-year non-compete and got the preliminary injunction it asked [...]