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HP Access Now Free of Charge, Available Through Resellers HP is now offering the discounts, software, services and training for small business -- all part of HP Access -- free of charge. Reseller channel partners can provide HP Access to their customers who purchase an HP product. HP Unfurls the Mini 5101 Netbook The netbook is built to appeal to business users with rugged design, bigger keyboard HP Offers BI Solution for IT Executives Hewlett-Packard's HP Project and Portfolio Management Center 8.0 brings business intelligence tools to IT executives, enabling them to consolidate several data sources for budget and cost in one place. The BI tool enables IT executives to improve their IT spending decisions by using real data. HP Software Revamps Partner Program Licensing HP Software is adding more options to its software licensing for channel partners, providing them with what Hewlett-Packard says is an easier entree into managed services and a better way to match their software services revenues to their software services costs. HP's CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better Computer giant HP's sales dipped 3 percent in the second quarter, including its EDS acquisition, but that performance wasn't enough for HP's CEO to call an end to the current economic crisis. Instead, HP took the conservative road, narrowing revenue guidance toward the lower end of what it had previously forecast for 2009, and said we are in for more of the same. Printers and Enterprise Servers Expected to Drag on HP Sales Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)'s Q2 earnings are expected to reveal a bleak picture for sales of printers, printing supplies, and enterprise servers and storage. HP watchers are expected to pay particular attention to how well HP did in reducing its channel inventory for its Imaging and Printing Group. HP Snags EMC Executive for Server, Storage Business David Donatelli, former president of EMC's storage division, will become the executive vice president of HP's enterprise servers, storage and networking. HP Expands SMB Elite Program to Canada The new designation to qualified resellers will provide special sales incentives, financing, lead generation and field support. The program is an extension of a previously U.S.-only pilot. HP Intros New LeftHand SAN and Blade Solutions for SMBs HP’s new LeftHand SAN and Blade solutions will help the vendor better penetrate the growing virtualization and storage market and drive new business for solution providers in the midmarket space. HP Gives Incentives to New Business Class Consultants The HP Solution Partners Organization has introduced Business Class Consultant (BCC), a compensation offer that recognizes and rewards HP preferred and elite partners with back-end rebates when they provide consultative and value-add activities while reselling qualified business-class solutions. HP Adds Virtualization to Business Service Automation Suite Hewlett-Packard says the addition of virtualization to its business service automation suite will enable users reduce the time it takes to configure and profession servers by 85 percent. HP Android Netbook to Muscle Out Microsoft Windows, Intel Atom By using Google's Linux-based operating system Android -- originally designed for mobile phones -- in netbooks, HP could drop the costs and price of netbooks even further. That could be crucial at a time when everyone has become so sensitive to price. But longtime HP partners Microsoft and Intel would be big losers in the deal. Space Station Gets Full Power, but What's the Switch? The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119), in one of the final missions of the NASA shuttle program, docked with the International Space Station to deliver the last set of solar panels to give the orbiting lab full power. Back on Earth, Cisco is going nova in the data center, but Hewlett-Packard rules network switching in space. HP Intros New Storage, Virtualization Solutions HP’s newest storage and virtualization solutions can help customers of any size overcome their server and storage pain points to successfully weather a troubled economic climate. USA.NET, HP Partner to Deliver SaaS to Target SMBs USA.NET and HP will team up to deliver hosted e-mail, messaging and collaboration services to a larger number of solution providers, hoping to generate increased revenues and drive new business in the SMB market. HP Opens Deal Registration To All Channel Partners The move by technology and computing giant HP is part of a strategy by HP to target the SMB market during the recession. HP will also create an SMB Elite certification. EDS, Services Stabilize HP's Q1 Services are where the smart money is during this recession, as more companies look to outsource rather than invest in new computer hardware. HP's most recent quarter is a case in point. HP, Citrix Team Up on Desktop Virtualization HP’s next-generation blade PC will include XenDesktop 3 to increase security, slash acquisition costs and accelerate the client virtualization market. HP Offers Back-End Rebates on Value-Added Solutions HP’s new Business Class Consultant compensation program offers back-end rebates to solution providers that deliver value-added solutions around HP’s blade servers, switches and storage. HP Flexes Data Center Muscle with New Switch HP is releasing its first-ever line of devices designed specificially to make data center connectivity far easier and more efficient. |
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