HP News Desk

 HP and Oracle, in collaboration with Intel Corp., announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures. Introduced last year, the Application Modernization Initiative is a comprehensive solution that helps businesses modernize their legacy environments to increase business agility and performance, reduce operational costs and lower risks. The initiative is a multi-vendor collaboration that delivers specialized hardware, software and services that are designed to help companies easily transition from legacy environments to an open-standards based infrastructure that is flexible enough to meet dynamic business co... (more)

HP Labs To Pursue 20 to 30 Large IT Research Projects

In a press event today at HP company headquarters, HP announced that it has sharpened the focus of its advanced research group, HP Labs, to address the most complex challenges facing technology customers in the next decade - dividing its efforts into 5 areas of interest: the information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainabili... (more)

HP Launches New Home Server for PCs and Macs

HP launched a home server designed for use with both Windows and Mac computers Monday. Based on the Microsoft Windows Home Server platform, the HP MediaSmart Server ex485/ex487 is a central repository for automatically backing up and accessing digital music, videos, photos and documents from multiple computers on a home network. According to HP, the MediaSmart Server automatically organiz... (more)

ParAccel Welcomes HP Veteran Bill Russell as New Board Member

ParAccel has announced its move to San Diego in order to accommodate the company's growth.   Its new San Diego facilities will feature a state-of-the-art customer benchmark and briefing center to accommodate an increasing demand for proofs of concept (POC) and corporate due diligence visits.  In the past year, ParAccel has doubled its workforce as it continues to expand in both San Diego... (more)

HP Goes with Mobile Thin Client

HP is about to put out a novel 1GHz Celeron laptop it calls a mobile thin client, its first, apparently the result of its acquisition of Neoware. Wyse, the other remaining thin client maven, beat HP, now the market leader, to the punch a few months ago and added two more models the other day looking much like HP's. HP's thing, which starts at $725, has no drive or fan or any moving parts a... (more)