3Par, Barbara Darrow, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies3Par said it has accepted Dell's $1.8 billion dollar buyout offer. Continued »
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3Par, Barbara Darrow, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, StorageOne of Hewlett-Packard’s stated goals for its proposed $1.6 billion buyout of 3Par is to broaden and deepen distribution of 3Par’s storage technologies.
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3Par, Barbara Darrow, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies, Mark HurdThis morning, Hewlett-Packard launched a $24 per share cash bid for 3Par and its data storage expertise. The offer touches off a bidding war against Dell, which offered $18 per share for 3Par last week.
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Barbara Darrow, Connie Guglielmo, David Shane, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies, Mark HurdThis is a little inside baseball but it still bears noting. Hewlett-Packard, fresh off its latest CEO scandal, has brought in a reporter--a very good reporter--to lead corporate communications. HP said today that Connie...
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Barbara Darrow, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and services, Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, Oracle, pretexting, shareholder suitIf HP's beleaguered board thought the unpleasant Mark Hurd headlines would evaporate soon, it has another think coming. Continued »
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Barbara Darrow, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies, Mark HurdMark Hurd is out as CEO of HP. That little stunner dropped after close of business today when Hewlett-Packard disclosed an internal investigation into a relationship between Hurd and an...
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Barbara Darrow, Channel partner programs, Cisco, data center hardware, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT products and services, partner programCan't we all just get along?
Apparently not, if "we" is Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. The latest in the nasty HP vs. Cisco data center hardware battle is that Cisco is dumping HP, a long time partner but increasingly a rival, from its partner program.
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Barbara Darrow, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and servies, John Chambers, Mark Hurd, partner conferenceTalk about counter programming. Hewlett-Packard slated its partner conference directly opposite Cisco's previously planned partner summit. Here's the VAR Guy's take on this move--which will put joint...
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cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and servies, schoolHewlett-Packard had a mega-briefing this week about thin client and client virtualization technology that I will be reporting on in greater depth, but one of the "products" that the company's partners should consider studying most closely is something called HP SchoolCloud.
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Barbara Darrow, compliance, ERP, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies, Microsoft, Microsoft Business SolutionsHewlett Packard channel partners were unpleased to learn this week that HP will make them foot the bill for new compliance training. HP wants all its parters to comply with the U.S. Government Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by year's end. And said compliance will set them back $120 which they...
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