Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Hewlett-Packard on Friday expanded its worldwide recall of notebook batteries for laptops sold between 2007 and 2008 in a variety of notebooks due to the risk of catching fire. The list of affected laptops covers a range of price points and laptops sold under the HP, Pavilion, Compaq and Compaq Presario brand names. This voluntary…
The Cloud Design Service, released this week, follows HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) Cloud Discovery Workshop and Cloud Roadmap Service. Whereas Discovery Workshop was more educational, designed to help people learn about Cloud computing, and Roadmap Service was a planning service to help plan a future deployment, Design Service actually gets into the nitty gritty of implementation….
In our story in November, Five Steps to Making Virtual Desktops a Reality, we outlined what is involved in getting started with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. Another path towards VDI implementation is to examine one of numerous all-in-one “starter” solutions that bundle together the various hardware and software components needed to more quickly deploy…
Computer services and hardware giant HP just got bigger. The company announced today it plans to buy networking player 3Com in a $2.7B deal that aims to turn HP into a forced to be reckoned with in networking. HP will pay $7.90 per share of 3COM. A premium above today’s close of $5.69. The purchase…
Early in July, the Distributed Management Taskforce (DMTF) gave its approval for the CMDBf specification for supporting federated CMDB systems—or as ITIL v3 would have it, a federated configuration management system (CMS). In this vision, multiple reconciled sources including management data repositories, discovery systems, etc. can provide a cohesive fabric to support more effective service…
Editor’s Note: See the updated version of this article to get the latest on SSD in the enterprise. Solid state disks (SSD) made a splash in consumer technology, now the technology looks set to dominate the enterprise storage market. “Get ready for a disruption in the storage ecosystem,” said Burton Group Analyst Gene Ruth. Given…
Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to IT seems to be growing. Back in December, Network World published an article titled National Science Foundation commands artificial intelligence revolution. Apparently, NSF funds AI research to the tune of $90 million annually as part of its Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) grant program. Researchers can…
I wouldn’t be alone in telling you that investment in IT is still a good bet in 2009. Many are even saying that technology will play a strong role in the economic recovery. In my opinion, this could very well be the case. Research data collected by EMA as recently as October, 2008 shows no…
Cutting IT budgets may not be easy, but when you know where to slice, the savings can add up. Here are some tips from six experts on how it can be done: Do an inventory. Just maybe the biggest IT savings come from “cleaning out the closet,” says Peter S. Greis, principal, IT Planning &…
After several months of turmoil, things came to a head at Sun Microsystems with the unpleasant pre-holiday news that around 6,000 people, 15 to 18 percent of its workforce, would be cut in a restructuring plan that the firm hopes will save $700 million to $800 million annually. The Santa Clara, California-based company declined to…