One of the more surprising episodes in HP and Oracle’s ill-fated enterprise IT partnership was touched upon for only a …
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HP issues worldwide recall of 50,000 laptop batteries over fire risk
The company said it had received eight reports of those batteries "overheating, melting, or charring." Those reports included property damage and burns.1 3516
HP's Livermore was 'furious and appalled' at Oracle dropping Itanium
Hewlett-Packard enterprise chief Ann Livermore was “furious and appalled” when she saw Oracle’s announcement that it would end development for …
HP releases 100TB/hr backup system
Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced new deduplication tools for its StoreOnce family of backup appliances that enable performance of up to 100TB per hour and data …
Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal
Salesforce.com is acquiring social media marketing firm Buddy Media in a US$689 million cash and stock deal, the companies announced …
HP uncovers record number of counterfeit printing supplies in UAE
HP today announced that its collaboration with UAE law enforcement has resulted in the largest seizure of counterfeit printing supplies …
Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release
The next version of Oracle’s database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during …
Cisco gets boost in server shipments in Q1, Gartner says
Worldwide server shipments grew at a slower-than-expected clip during the first quarter of 2012, but Cisco, which has a small …
HP: New data centre technology goes easy on the grid
A combination of solar power and carefully automated management should let data centres have a net grid impact of zero, …
HP appoints new head of software
Following through on promises to shuffle the ranks of upper management, Hewlett-Packard has hired George Kadifa to head up the …
IT services and system integration are losing strategic importance, study reveals
The effects of increasing digitisation are leading to dramatic shifts in business models globally and in the ICT industry’s provider …