HP buys Phoenix’s virtualization division for $12M
By Tarry Singh at 11 June, 2010, 3:19 am
Very good move by HP. Phoenix was founded in 1979 and said it January it wanted to sell off non-core assets and return its attention to BIOS. In April it sold off FailSafe and Freeze. Unfortunately for Freeze users, the buyer decided shortly afterwards to stop supporting the product. Exactly what HP intends to do [...]
Read More >>Bank of Ireland shortlists IBM, HCL for $600 Million deal to replace HP
By Tarry Singh at 3 June, 2010, 12:11 am
Bank of Ireland has shortlisted HCL Technologies and IBM for an outsourcing contract potentially worth over $600 million, replacing incumbent vendor HP, which had signed a seven-year deal with the bank in 2004. ( Watch ) The outsourcing contract will involve management of the bank’s IT infrastructure including desktops, servers, printers and other communication networks. [...]
Read More >>HP Networking emerges; ProCurve and 3Com to be rebranded
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:24 am
As HP moves closer to absorbing its giant EDS acquisition, its real all-round play emerges. With HP Networking, it goes directly after Cisco which lacks system integration, data center outsourcing and other services market presence. Cisco is still working on its Acadia initiative which still only involves software/hardware vendors like VMware and EMC, which certianly [...]
Read More >>HP confirms the MSFT love by building Hyper-V and LeftHand appliance
By Tarry Singh at 15 January, 2010, 5:04 am
HP is planning to develop a Hyper-V version of its VMware-based LeftHand Networks virtual storage appliance (VSA). VSA is LeftHand SAN/iq software packaged to run as a virtual machine under VMware. Like SAN/iq itself it turns direct-attached storage (DAS) on its server, or PC, host, into storage area network (SAN) storage. Groups of servers can [...]
Read More >>Microsoft and HP tag team to take on Cisco, EMC and VMware
By Tarry Singh at 13 January, 2010, 11:06 am
The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will do the following: • Be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model • Advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation • Eliminate complexities of IT management and automate existing manual processes to lower the overall costs This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to [...]
Read More >>Hey Cisco! HP just bought 3Com for $2.7 Bn cash!
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:09 am
My keynote last night at a University — where we covered enterpreneurship, Cloud Computing and taking the charge in your own hands — where couple of biggies from Media and Entertainment industry were there, there were many interesting insights shared by reknowned experts and it was real fun. Cisco came also as a company to [...]
Read More >>WTF… Microsoft to outsource $700M worth of operations; IBM and HP shortlisted!
By Tarry Singh at 2 November, 2009, 1:57 am
Really. So we know now where the butter is. If MSFT is shedding its skin and letting someone else do its infra and DCs, then we know that we all ought to run as fast as we can to the PaaS, SaaS world, which Merrill Lynch estimated to be a $160 Billion worth market. MSFT [...]
Read More >>HP’s SaaS product “Elastic Test Service” to stress test you internet apps for agility
By Tarry Singh at 15 October, 2009, 11:16 pm
Vendors will kill each others attempts to do any cross-selling or selling gear to the not-really-ready-for-the-cloud-yet kind of customers. Imagine if a customer wants to do some massive tests. Sample Scenario: Nokia wants to test its apps as part of research to investigate its dwindling sales Say its Nokia who just posted a dismal $800M [...]
Read More >>The real story behind Cisco’s UCS and “One Giant Switch”!
By Tarry Singh at 16 July, 2009, 1:46 am
HP has some hard words for Cisco and this is a sign that HP is gearing up for a big fight. With VMworld keeping HP locked out of the VMworld organizers who obviously will have all of EMC gear now and Cisco’s boxes, HP is desperately looking for means to crack open Cisco’s UCS box [...]
Read More >>VMworld 2009: VMware! Shutting HP out, is it worth the risk?
By Tarry Singh at 27 June, 2009, 5:07 am
Update 2 28th June 2009: After the whole twitter world getting a bit fired up by this post I just want to say one thing of all the possible [and unrealistic, according to some, circumstances] that the following are the observations I can make now: 1. Cisco doing what it should be doing: Cisco is [...]
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