Hp News & Articles

This week, Big Blue released its semiannual risk assessment report identifying where the greatest external risks are coming from, as well as offering upgraded help for the problem; we took a look at SharePoint records management again; SAS offered help in the health sector while HP offered compliance through information management.

It the wake of yesterday’s AIIM State of the ECM Industry report, where we noted that many enterprises over the course of this year are looking to break the boundaries between content repositories, it is opportune that HP (news, site) should be launching a strategy to provide holistic information management by providing an overview of content across the enterprise.

This week, there has a lot of research from different companies, not least of which is Microsoft, that shows one-third of all SMBs are currently cloud-bound; HP gives further details of its “strategic vision” for SMBs; Kerio introduces an SMB collaboration space and tablets are making money for SMBs, AMI Partners says.

During two conferences, some key mobile news came out -- namely, that mobile malware will be a concern for Android and that mobile payments are coming sooner than expected.

If Dell is riding high on some impressive figures for fiscal 2010 announced this week, it’s just about certain that it’s tinged with a little bit of unease with the announcement also this week that HP (news, site) is about to close a deal on the acquisition of Vertica.

This week HP has launched a suite of new products that aims to offer enterprises developing hybrid clouds GRC across applications and infrastructure, Guidance extends e-Discovery software to iPad, Digital Reef and Relativity team-up for e-Discovery, and Protiviti adds Arabic to its governance portal.

With the first release of applications from the one-year-old partnership between HP (news, site) and Microsoft (news, site), both companies hope to counter complete-stack vendors -- like Oracle or IBM -- and offer easily deployed and maintained data management offerings.

There probably isn’t a whole lot of mileage in reporting that Oracle (news, site) has just released its Q1 figures, which show that it made buckets of cash again. ‘Buckets’ might be a tad vague, so just for the record, revenue grew 47% to US$ 8.6 billion with net income growing 28% to US$ 1.9 billion.

HP’s (news, site) Enterprises Service group is eyeing an increased market share in the Asia Pacific region by 2011, particularly focusing on cloud computing, managed security services and data management. To this end, HP highlights its recent acquisitions of Arcsight and Fortify, and its launch of ALM 11 as vehicles for an improved market presence in the region.

Cloud player Boomi has been bringing the big guns into the SaaS integration market, turning itself into a natural target for a larger player like Dell. 

Online marketing dominates the SMB news this week with a number of new releases. While many people continue to look at social media to improve business, Trend Micro research reveals that most SMBs still worry about online threats and data leaks. All of this wrapped up with the news that the Palm Pre 2 will likely be available in the US very soon has made for quite a week in the world of SMBs. 

Only four days before SAP and Oracle were to meet in an Oakland courtroom concerning a case brought by Oracle against SAP over copyright infringements, SAP has admitted contributory liability. The latest filing is a dramatic change from its previous position where it admitted wrongdoing by its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, but not by SAP itself.

When HP announced that it was buying Palm (news, site), everyone wondered when and what it would do to recoup some of the US$ 1.2bn it paid for the ailing smartphone maker. On Friday, we will get the first look at Palm WebOS v2.0 as the operating system of the Palm Pre 2 handset.

In the lofty environs of the executive suite at HP (news, site) a new name is being engraved on the top door!