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By: HP: We’re committed to the PC … just in an open relationship - Enterprise IT Watch Blog

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:26:06 +0000

[...] of the recent valid criticisms (Michael Arrington’s excepted): While the plan to remake HP makes sense at a strategic level, the public execution has been blunder after blunder. This has squandered years of good will and [...]

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The IT Blog Top 10: September 1, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:00:13 +0000

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By: TessaLP

TessaLP — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:31:26 +0000

I’ll be interested to hear how HP progresses with ProCurve and its enterprise hardware family, too, though I got a clue when I spoke to HP at [A href="http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/news/2240036255/Interop-2011-Las-Vegas-recap-Wide-area-network-news"]Interop 2011 Las Vegas[/A] this spring. At the conference, HP reached out to speak to me about its WAN optimization strategy. Not knowing they had one, this piqued my interest. HP Networking Product Line Manager Mark Hilton (along with several PR and marketing reps corralled in their video conferencing booth) explained [A href="http://h20427.www2.hp.com/solutions/networkservices/au/en/pdf/WAN_Optimisation_Service_Brochure.pdf"]HP’s WAN optimization service [/A] — which, to put bluntly, is not HP’s WAN optimization at all, but an integration with partners at varying levels: One is to meet in the channel; the other involves preloading third-party WAN optimization software onto HPs Ethernet switches. At our discussion, Hilton explained HP uses the WAN optimization software from Riverbed, Microsoft and Avaya, and more to come (F5 perhaps?). As far as HP’s networking strategy is concerned, this aligns very closely with what you got at with HP’s Autonomy acquisition. As you state it, “HP could de-commoditize cheap hardware by putting expensive software on it.” — HP’s networking M.O. I think you hit the nail on the head.

By: Arrington’s Awful HP Advice: Leave commodity PC market for a worse one - Enterprise IT Watch Blog

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:34:51 +0000

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