Business Technology Optimization
15 Stories
Software is HP's 'fastest growing' unit
News IT giant's software arm is worth US$3 billion in 2008, compared to US$1 billion in 2005, but HP remains cautious on cloud strategy, say company execs.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Cloud Computing, Vienna, business technology, business technology optimization, Quality Center 10.0, UCMDB 8.0
HP must bundle software, services
News To succeed in the software market, HP must more closely tie its business technology optimization strategy with its services portfolio, says analyst.
Tags: Utility computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Services, Consulting, Hewlett-Packard Co., business technology, business technology optimization, software, Oracle Corp., industry
India slower at adopting BTO
News India lags behind Japan, Korea and China in the region for adopting business technology optimization tools, says HP executive.
Tags: Business applications, Database management
New HP Thai chief optimistic after EDS acquisition
News Despite the economic downturn, Hewlett-Packard Thailand plans to aggressively penetrate the software and outsourcing services markets, and is optimistic about business growth in 2009.
Tags: Business applications, Services, Service level management, Storage, Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Thailand, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Storage
Mercury to acquire application-mapping start-up
News Management software company Mercury Interactive snaps up Appilog to acquire its "application mapping" technology, designed to more quickly pinpoint problems in corporate data centers.
Tags: Data centers
Dose of Mercury leaves HP's vision blurry
News Three months after closing "the industry's biggest acquisition this year", HP still hasn't mapped out a view for its software future.
Tags: Business applications, Acquisitions, Merger integration teams
HP opens wallet for software business
News Hewlett-Packard fills its software needs by offering US$1.6 billion for Opsware and US$214 million for Neoware.
Tags: Acquisitions, Content management, Remote management
HP debuts Automated Operations 1.0
News With Automated Operations, HP offers a new way to deliver IT operations.
Tags: Business applications, App servers, Groupware, work flow software
Tata CEO has more designs on China
News Not just a red-hot market for IT services, China's talent pool can service the international market.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Optimize IT with the Mercury BTO blueprint
Insight If you work in IT management, you are probably no stranger to pressure. It never ceases to amaze me how much management expects out of the IT department, and how few resources the IT department is given to meet these expectations.
Mercury bridges the gaps
Insight Chief technology officer Oren Ariel talks about the gaps that he is still working to fill in Mercury's business technology optimization strategy.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Leadership techniques, Change mangement
HP to bulk up software group with Bristol buy
News Company said Bristol's transaction-monitoring software complements the testing and systems monitoring products it gained through its Mercury Interactive buy.
Mercury buys registry maker Systinet
News Mercury Interactive pays US$105 million to get foothold in service-oriented architecture software market.
Tags: Component-based development, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Databases, Acquisitions
IT must be more accountable, says Mercury
News Organizations are spending too much energy deploying and maintaining their software, says a senior executive from the management software vendor.
Tags: IT Governance
HP reveals green storage technology
News Company claims that it can half power and cooling costs in data centers as it announces a raft of products at its Las Vegas conferences.
