HP news from Network World

Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets

2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

A former HP vice president was indicted by a federal grand jury last week for allegedly stealing trade secrets from his former employer, IBM.

Kernel space: The Tru64 Advanced Filesystem

2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

HP has released Digital's Tru64 Advanced Filesystem under the GPL, free for Linux developers to borrow. And developers can learn a lot from this museum piece.

Dell simplifies blade server management with I/O virtualization

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dell is simplifying management of its blade servers with an I/O virtualization tool.

HP adds deduplication

Deni Connor — 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

HP last week introduced not just one, but two data deduplication technologies that let IT reduce the amount of data they back up.

VMware, Microsoft battle over virtualization management capabilities

Denise Dubie — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

VMware dominates the virtualization market, but industry watchers expect hypervisor technology to become secondary to management and other capabilities when customers commit to large virtual server implementations. Can Microsoft unseat the leader by differentiating its hypervisor with advanced management capabilities?

HP, Hitachi boost blade server offerings

Agam Shah — 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

HP and Hitachi boosted their existing blade server offerings on Tuesday, with Hitachi upgrading its systems with the latest Intel chips and Hewlett-Packard combining blades to create a specially configured appliance that can handle demanding data-warehouse workloads.

Microsoft, HP ship tools to protect Web sites from hackers

2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

Microsoft and HP on Tuesday unveiled free tools to help Web developers and site administrators defend against the rapidly growing number of SQL injection attacks that aim to hijack legitimate sites.

Virtual server management marriage: Veeam acquires Nworks

Denise Dubie — 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

Virtual systems management vendor Veeam Software Tuesday announced it had acquired for an undisclosed amount a company called Nworks that makes software enabling HP and Microsoft products to separately manage VMware virtual servers.

HP ProCurve delivers Gigabit Ethernet to SMBs

Jim Duffy — 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

HP ProCurve this week unveiled Gigabit Ethernet switches for the small/medium business market.

No pain, no gain when it comes to managing virtualization

Denise Dubie — 2008-06-23T00:00:00Z

Virtualization is the darling of the technology industry right now, but more and more industry watchers are warning IT managers about the dangers of taking x86 server virtualization too lightly.

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2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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