HP consolidates, protects data centers

HP announced this week switching products for data centers and security designed to simplify server connectivity and secure data in a converged infrastructure.

For server connectivity in a converged data center, HP announced a Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet switch module A5820 your data center, which is inherited through the acquisition of 2.7 billion U.S. dollars of 3Com . The module alleviates the need for two adapters to allow the physical and virtual servers to access network resources and storage – Fibre Channel running over Ethernet on the access level to the server.
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HP: Palm buy not about smartphones

When Hewlett-Packard ponied up US$1.2 billion for struggling smartphone maker Palm, it was widely seen as a speedy way for the PC and enterprise services company to get in to the burgeoning mobile device market.

Not so, HP CEO Mark Hurd said Wednesday. At the Bank of The united states Merrill Lynch expertise conference Hurd said his company has broader designs.

He told the audience that HP did not “spend billions of dollars trying to go in to the smartphone business; that doesn’t in any way make any sense,” according to a ZDNet document.

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