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Palm Drew Many Suitors Beyond HP
New details have emerged regarding Hewlett-Packard’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. While the smartphone maker may have been financially struggling, it was hardly an unnoticed wallflower before HP came along, according to a proxy statement Palm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statement reads a bit like a novella, detailing the advancements,…
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Netbooks Still Red Hot
The market for netbooks or mini-notebooks is still expanding, with shipments expected to reach 58 million units in 2010, as consumers and business users continue to look for low-cost computing alternatives, according to a report from research firm ABI. In 2009, netbook shipments topped 36 million units, which was higher that ABI’s original forecast of…
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HP to Pay Incentives to SAP Customers That Migrate from Sun to HP
Hewlett-Packard is offering Oracle SunSet Program incentives for partners who move customers off Oracle Sun SPARC servers for their SAP implementations to an HP infrastructure instead. HP made the announcement at the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., this week in the form of the HP Migration in a Box. The offering provides a comprehensive…
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ParaScale Cloud Storage Software Adds More Data Security
Just a year after it first introduced its Cloud Storage Software, ParaScale has announced it is offering the Beta 2.5 version of the technology. The announcement comes as the industry is seeing more momentum behind cloud computing. Based on its first cloud computing survey focused exclusively on servers, IDC predicted that server revenue in the…
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SAP Enterprises Get ERP Hosting in the Cloud
Businesses that have come to rely on enterprise applications from vendors such as Oracle and SAP may believe that the complexity of their systems will prevent them from ever taking advantage of the benefits outsourcing those systems to the cloud. And customers are gravitating towards the cloud, both for the nimbleness it offers them, the…