HP in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: Product showcase at ISS 2013
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  IN PICTURES: HP Global Partner Conference (46 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: HP hit print in Shanghai
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  In pictures: HP Solutions Experience Centre, Singapore

• IN PICTURES: Product showcase at ISS 2013

  By Nermin Bajric | 15 May, 2013 20:25

  The Intel Solutions Summit 2013 featured a show-floor housing an abundance of Intel-powered products.

• Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware

  By Jon Gold | 07 May, 2013 16:27

  Citrix today announced new models in its CloudBridge line of branch repeater hardware, along with a software update to Version 7.0, which adds WAN optimization capability and direct support for public cloud services.

• Apple breaks into Fortune 500's top 10

  By Gregg Keizer | 06 May, 2013 14:41

  Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP.

• The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches

  By Jim Duffy | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  Cloud scaling will be all the switching rage at this week’s Interop. Three major vendors last week took their platforms deeper into and then beyond the data center, outdueling each other on server access density and software programmability, two key attributes needed for the virtualized goldmine called the cloud. And in so doing, they have raised the bar and perhaps set the stage for one of the more anticipated announcements in SDN switching from Cisco spin-in Insieme.

• How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• New Chromebooks coming this year from Asus and Acer, report suggests

  By Katherine Noyes | 02 May, 2013 13:04

  Hard on the heels of the news that the Linux kernel itself has now added Chromebook support, other reports this week suggest that the ongoing popularity of devices that use Google's Linux-based Chrome OS operating system will likely continue unabated throughout the year.

• Data#3 reappointed to Queensland Government supplier panel

  By Julia Talevski | 02 May, 2013 12:13

  Data#3 has expanded on its 20 year relationship with the Queensland Government through being reappointed as a panel supplier of computer hardware and services.

• Arista heading off Cisco/Insieme at 100G SDNs?

  By Jim Duffy | 01 May, 2013 11:24

  Arista is raising the ante in high-density programmable core switching and perhaps setting the stage for things to come.

• HP is ready to get back to business

  By Jared Newman | 29 October, 2011 08:12

  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.

• Vendor Awards: Hardware - HP

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 16:19

  The ARN Awards Hardware Vendor of the Year gong has been won for the fourth straight year by HP. The company's ability to maintain a stable hold as the premiere hardware vendor is a spectacular result.

• Chambers: Networking's changing competitive landscape

  By John Gallant | 12 March, 2010 16:30

  In the second instalment of an in-depth interview, John Chambers talks with John Gallant, Scot Finnie, and Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about the changing competitive landscape, Cisco’s datacentre strategy and its relationship with HP.

• HP's Hat Trick

  By Tim Lohman | 27 October, 2009 16:15

  Like a formula one driver at the top of his game, HP has shown remarkable consistency as the company negotiated the bends, curves and hairpins of the market over the past year.

• HP puts the networking pedal to the metal

  By John Dix | 10 September, 2009 15:00

  Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of HP's ProCurve Networking business, which was recently aligned with the company's server, storage and services businesses under HP's Technology Solutions Group, creating an approximately $45 billion unit. Haas, who previously served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, is charged with shifting the network business into overdrive. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Haas to talk about the market and his plans.

• Heading up HP’s IPG

  By Trevor Clarke | 13 May, 2009 01:00

  The printing space has always been tough, but with the economic crisis biting margins and revenues, the channel has been up against it like never before. HP imaging and printing group vice-president, Richard Bailey, took on his position just as the doom and gloom started to hit six months ago. He talks to TREVOR CLARKE about his fi rst half year in the job.

• Interview: Setting up storage distribution business

  By Matt Sainsbury | 25 March, 2009 16:25

  New channel recruit at EMC, Leo Lynch, joined the vendor three months ago after a long tenure with HP. He talked to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about opportunities in storage, social responsibilities in enterprise and BlackBerry devices.

• HP, Paul Robson: Two in a row

  By Trevor Clarke | 22 November, 2008 15:17

  This time last year HP was the toast of the hardware vendor town. In 2007, it had become the world’s leading PC vendor and was rewarded for its channel consistency with the ARN Hardware Vendor of the Year award.

• Would you use a Cloud-based version of Windows?

  By Ian Paul | 02 May, 2013 22:24

  It's been two years since Chromebooks running Google's Chrome OS appeared on store shelves. So far, Google's plan - to turn your Web browser into an operating system and websites into desktop-app replacements - does not appear to be catching on

• What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind

  By Bob Brown | 23 April, 2013 15:06

  As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year-and-a-half since becoming executive vice-president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.

• What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

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

• Dell offers glimpse of its post-buyout life

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 07 February, 2013 11:15

  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.

• HP's woes persist as Autonomy deal goes bad

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 December, 2012 11:16

  Hewlett-Packard vows to 'aggressively' seek recompense for alleged fraud on the part of U.K. software vendor Autonomy, which HP acquired in a $US10.3 billion deal last year.

• In a symbolic shift, IBM's India workforce likely exceeds U.S.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 29 November, 2012 11:15

  It has been widely expected over the past year or two that IBM's India workforce was on track to exceed its U.S. workforce, if it hadn't exceeded it already.

• Europe looks to ARM chips for supercomputing edge

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 15 November, 2012 11:13

  The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog, and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge.

• High-performance computing turns to apps to cut cost and frustration

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 14 November, 2012 11:18

  Steve Jobs was right about apps in more ways than perhaps he ever knew. The concept of using apps to make software easily available and affordable to large numbers is arriving in high performance computing.