Integration and Services

A new dedicated datacentre project management group has been formed in response to the growing demands in the market.

HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion, or US$25.00 per share.

BMC Software is strengthening its franchise partner network in a bid to boost channel coverage across its broadening services automation product line.

Customers of Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems offered a range of reactions Tuesday to HP's US$13.9 billion bid for the massive outsourcing company.

HP's decision to buy EDS for US$13.9 billion this morning offers considerable potential benefits but the execution carries significant risks, according to analysts from IDC, a sister company of ComputerWorldUK.

HP Tuesday announced its plans to acquire EDS for US$13.9 billion in a deal that would double HP's services business and revive EDS' position as a leader in global technology services. The acquisition will catapult HP's annual revenue for services from less than $20 billion to nearly $40 billion and position HP as the second largest services provider in the world. Here is a look at what is happening and why now.

Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.

Establishing a brand name is a task that few companies do well. And, according to those that have, if there's one thing that's harder it's sustaining a brand.

Software-as-a-service may have come into the enterprise through "the bathroom window," but it's definitely becoming part of the mainstream, says SAAS expert Mike West, vice president at Saugatuck Technology Inc., a boutique management consulting and subscription research company focused on disruptive technologies.

For consumers, the Macintosh's hip quotient is being hammered home with one of the largest and most memorable advertising campaigns in Apple history. But the enterprise isn't getting any of that attention.

Antec senior vice-president, Scott Richards, was in Australia recently to launch the vendor's new range of enthusiast computing products. He spoke to ARN about trends in the computing marketplace and the importance for systems integrators to differentiate themselves from the 'big guys'.

As a channel consultant, I meet many partners (resellers, integrators or VARs) and I am keen to understand what they do. More often than not, their answer is a derivative of:

As the role of the CIO within the organisation evolves, so does the support the CIO needs from IT vendors and channel partners.

What will your IT department look like in, say, five years? This is an important question, because we're at the beginning of an array of major changes in the how, where and why IT is done.

To say it's been a challenging six months for Australia's largest distributor is an understatement. On the forefront of a downturn in the general IT economy, Tech Pacific appeared plagued by a lack of direction and bad management decisions.

Moving tends to be stressful and migrating apps and files from a Windows XP PC to a Windows Vista system is no exception. Belkin's Easy Transfer Cable for Windows Vista ($79.95) and Laplink's PCmover for Windows Vista ($89) can do some (though not all) of the heavy lifting involved in transferring programs and data to a new PC, but their help varies in quality and quantity.