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Hidden Cost of Specialization
U.S. small and midsized businesses spend more than $57 billion a year on IT goods and services, of which Hewlett-Packard owns a 20 percent market share. The key to increasing that share, says Meaghan Kelly, HP’s vice president of Channel Sales Development & Strategies, is solution providers focused on small business. At this week’s HP…
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HP Optimistic on Print Managed Services
Sales of workstation and desktop printers took a beating during the recession as business made do with the legacy equipment. But what didn’t happen was a decrease in printed pages, and that’s making Hewlett-Packard bullish on its printer and print managed services business. “There’s a large install base of products that could be refreshed because…
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HP Buys Palm for $1.2B, Targets iPhone, Android, iPad
HP (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to acquire Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM)for $1.2 billion, giving the 70-year-old technology juggernaut a foothold in the mobile handset market while at the same time it rescues the Palm platform in an increasingly fast-moving and competitive market. HP said in a statement that the combination of HP’s global scale and…
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HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell
Hewlett-Packard executives wasted no time and few words at its annual partner conference in Las Vegas calling on partners to rise to the competitive challenges posed by its chief rivals—Cisco Systems and Dell. In an ironic coincidence of scheduling, the HP and Cisco partner conferences are happening simultaneously. And HP executives almost gleefully acknowledged that…
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EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp Stand to Gain in Growing Storage Market
Regardless of what’s happening with the economy, the amount of data to be stored is still growing at more than 50 percent per year, and the length of time that data must be retained is being extended, too. This means it’s a very good time to be among the vendors—EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp—selling storage…