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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
Eric Schmidt wants Google in your office
Insight newsmaker Google services for business customers will become "very profitable" once they reach sufficient scale, CEO says in an interview.
Tags: Web services, Web 2.0, Web sites, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Google Voice, Microsoft Corp., Information Technology, Web sites, Web 2.0
Aussie organizations shun Office 2010
News No large Australian organization is known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Training, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows XP, KPMG Consulting Inc., Microsoft Office, desktop, Benefit, Microsoft Windows
Can innovation come in SMB packages?
Blogs I'm in Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days this week, serving as moderator for a panel discussion at the APEC SME Technolo...
APAC CIOs score 'poor' in managing assets
News Region's IT chiefs rate themselves well in executing IT and governance but give low marks on competence in technology and asset management, new survey reveals.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Innovation, SOA, India, International Data Corp., Singapore, Cloud Computing, CIO
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
Does brand matter?
Blogs Last weekend, I accompanied my husband to Sim Lim Square, a popular PC mall in Singapore, to buy a new home computer. He...
Tags: Desktops
BAT shares to gain
Insight With its IT shared services model going places, British American Tobacco has bigger ambitions for its Group Service Delivery unit.
Tags: IT Management, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
HP expands IT deal with Delphi
News Hewlett-Packard has landed a contract to manage business-software systems for automotive supplier Delphi, HP said Thursday.
'Unstoppable' consumer tech revolution on the way
News Gartner points to consumerization, commoditization and virtualization as agents of IT change over next decade. Businesses that are "shackled by legacy systems" may get left behind, the analyst also warns.
Tags: Business applications
50 percent of storage vendors to go bust by 2004
News Gartner Group estimates that 50 percent of the world's storage vendors will go out of business within the next five years.
HP lines up outsourcing deals
News Hewlett-Packard last Friday announced that it is on the verge of scoring two major information-technology outsourcing deals.
Extreme makeover: ZDNet Asia edition
Blogs It was on Jun. 9, 2005, that the ZDNet Asia site made its debut, offering a comprehensive online resource for Asia's bus...
NTT DoCoMo puts video phones on pause
News NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, said Friday that software glitches will delay by up to a month the arrival of video phones promised for a trial run later this month.
