Top Story - HP Seeks New Skills to Staff Data Centers

Hewlett-Packard is cutting 9,000 IT jobs while adding 6,000 new employees who have sales and service-delivery expertise.

Top Story - HP Faces Rocky Road with Palm Buy

Analysts say it's no sure bet that Hewlett-Packard Co. 's planned $1.2 billion (about Rs. 5400 crores) purchase of Palm will prove successful. In fact, an IDC research note gives it only a one in four chance of working out.

Top Story - IDC: Palm Purchase Risky For HP

It's no sure bet that Hewlett-Packard's US $1.2 billion purchase of Palm  will be successful, analysts say, citing intense competition for smartphones and the 12 months it would take for HP to build a WebOS tablet to compete against the iPad.

Top Story - Oracle's Itanium Move Shakes Up IT Agendas

The vendor's decision to end software support for the Intel server chip could force expensive IT infrastructure changes.

Top Story - Windows 8 'Clover Trail' Tablets Expected After Mid-2012

Intel's "Clover Trail" processor, which is the base for many tablets announced to be in market soon, isn't expected to be released until June at the earliest.

Top Story - IBM Unveils New Clustering Feature

On the eve of Oracle's OpenWorld user conference, IBM unveiled a new clustering feature that it says contends will help its flagship DB2 database trump Oracle's rival product on scalability, speed and price.

Top Story - Dell Now Gets Chunk Of Health Care

There are a lot of reasons why Dell agreed to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion (about Rs19,500crore) , but Congress' vote earlier this year to appropriate billions of dollars to spread the use of electronic medical records may be a key one.

Top Story - HP, RIM Ally for BlackBerry

Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion plan to design and sell business software together for RIM's popular BlackBerry smartphones.

Top Story - VMware, EMC Release New Virtual Storage, Smaller VMAX Array

In conjunction with VMware's release of its next generation cloud operating system, vSphere 5 , EMC this week announced new vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) software and a smaller version of its top-end VMAX storage array. The VSA software pools internal disk capacity on physical servers to create a storage area network (SAN).

Top Story - Microsoft, HP Push UC

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have expanded their partnership to develop and sell a common platform for delivering voice, video and messaging services to office workers.