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HP’s New Strategy: A Trifecta of Questionable Decisions
HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) recent strategy revelations – dumping its TouchPad tablet and smartphones and webOS, exploring the sale of its PC business, and acquiring software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion – failed to gain widespread support among analysts, stockholders or industry observers. For instance, HP’s share price declined by 20 percent on Friday, the day after…
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Dell Updates EqualLogic with Major Refresh
Dell is pushing its EqualLogic storage products into the next generation with the release of the EqualLogic PS6100 and PS4100 Series, both of were designed to provide greater capacity and better performance than the previous generation of the storage products. The PS4100 Series is an extension of the PS4000 Series and was developed with small…
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HP’s Confounding New Strategy: Partners Respond
Partners are holding their breath following HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) multiple bombshells last week — buying software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion, looking to sell off its PC business and abandoning webOS and dumping its Touchpad tablet and smartphones. While most channel experts expect the ripple effects to travel far with these moves by HP, it is…
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HP to Cut PC, webOS Businesses, Acquire Autonomy
Aug. 18, 2011 may well turn out to be a pivotal day in the 72-year history of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest IT provider. The day boiled down to simple subtraction and addition and not just in reference to the 2011 third-quarter financial report it delivered, which was the most dire one in recent years.…
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Microsoft’s Office 365 Experiences Outages: Reports
Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account…