Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets.

Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center."

On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems.

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday said it has begun to integrate its hardware and management systems with Google Apps.

Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS, a system long valued for its reliability and break-through features, in 2020.

Hewlett-Packard wants to help organizations get rid of their useless data, all the information that is no longer needed yet still takes up expensive space on storage servers.

Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.

IBM's Steve Mills has long been known for his leadership of the company's software division, but last year he added hardware and systems to his responsibilities as well. That move put Mills in charge of 100,000 employees and products that generate US$40 billion in revenue for IBM, according to its website.

BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.

IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.

Anything less than a DIY digital home entertainment project means making the most of Apple TV

Asia is fast becoming the epicenter of the PC market as Chinese and Taiwanese companies challenge the turf occupied for more than a decade by prominent U.S. PC makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell, whose laptop and desktop shipments are stumbling.

There is a lot yet to be told about how going private will change Dell, but one thing it won't change is its enterprise strategy.

Hewlett-Packard is rebooting its tablet strategy with the ElitePad 900, but faces challenges as it tries to overcome past tablet failures and deals with the slow adoption of the Windows 8 OS, analysts said.

The end of each year sparks an occasion for rumination on the past, as well as a longing gaze into the future. We shined up our crystal ball, rubbed our chin for a while, and sought opinions from industry analysts on what the future holds for the enterprise software market.