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HP Names Channel Execs For Combined PCs And Printers Group
HP announces an executive reshuffle of channel leadership in its Printers and Personal Systems division, which is aimed at a simpler organizational structure.
Mike Parrottino, who has been leading U.S. channel sales for HP's Personal Systems Group since last September, is now head of the PPS Americas channel organization. He will now report to John Solomon, senior vice president and general manager of the PPS Americas business.
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HP Names Channel Execs For Combined PCs And Printers Group
HP announces an executive reshuffle of channel leadership in its Printers and Personal Systems division, which is aimed at a simpler organizational structure.
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Dell Discontinues U.S. Smartphones, Plans On New Mobile Devices This Year
Dell has discontinued its Venue and Venue Pro smartphones in the U.S., the company confirmed Thursday. (Read Full Article)
Q&A: HP VP Says 'We Are Not Pulling Back On Anything'
Hewlett Packard Personal Systems Group Vice President Channel Sales Mike Parrottino says the computer giant is continuing to invest in its channel partners. (Read Full Article)
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Michael Dell: We're 'Not A PC Company'
Michael Dell used the introduction Dell's company's new 12G servers and related storage and networking technologies to remind the industry that the company is no longer a PC-centric one. (Read Full Article)
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Dell's Q4 Earnings Show Shift Towards Enterprise, Data Center Focus
Dell's total revenue is showing signs of weakness as the company focuses less on consumer business and more on enterprise and SMB customers. (Read Full Article)
HP Intros New Managed Print Services
HP uses its Global Partner Conference to introduce new managed print services.
Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HP's Imaging and Printing Group, told partners that the amount of digital data being created, both in corporate offices and in the cloud, is growing very quickly, and that 50 percent of an average worker's time is spent on managing data.
About 6 percent of the average enterprise's budget is spent on imaging and printing, and of that amount, about 10 percent goes to hardware and supplies, 15 percent to services and 75 percent to solutions, Joshi said.
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New HP Services Target Rapid Cloud Growth
HP Service Integration and Management comes in response to what HP says are burgeoning cloud services.
The offering, called the HP Service Integration and Management, comes in response to what HP says are rapidly growing cloud services that are challenging businesses to govern and manage their IT environment, control costs and optimize delivery of their IT services internally and to their clients.
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Whitman's Campaign To Bring HP Back
Meg Whitman has been doing some remodeling at Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)'s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters since taking over as president and CEO in September. First, she and her executive team moved out of their offices into cubicles. Then she ordered the barbed-wire fence that used to separate the executive parking lot from the HP employee parking lot to be torn down. And, thanks to Whitman, all 49 of HP's campus buildings are now blanketed in high-speed WLAN coverage for the first time.
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Veteran HP Channel Executive Jumps Ship To Oracle
Tom LaRocca, a key builder of HP's PartnerONE program and veteran of the Solution Partners Organization, has joined Oracle in a channel and alliances role. (Read Full Article)
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HP Issues Fix For LaserJet Flaw, Doesn't Mention Burning Printers
HP issues printer firmware update for LaserJet printers, addressing a security vulnerability that researchers from Columbia University reported last month.
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LAPD Drops Out Of Google Cloud Project
Google's Los Angeles cloud project has taken a hit as security concerns have prompted the LAPD to stick with its on-premise system instead of going with the Google cloud. (Read Full Article)
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IBM Expands Smarter Commerce Initiative With DemandTec Acquisition
The IBM acquisition of DemandTec, a developer of sales and marketing analysis applications, will expand the IBM Smarter Commerce initiative (Read Full Article)
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HP, Microsoft Forge Four-Year Cloud Pact
HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft have teamed up in a cloud partnership in which the pair will offer joint public and private cloud solutions and HP will resell Microsoft Office 365.
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HP ESSN Sales Kickoff Gives HP Employees, VARs Unified Focus
HP brought 4,000-plus ESSN employees and 300-plus VARs together for a week of meetings which introduced new programs and put concerns about unpopular decisions in the past year to rest. (Read Full Article)
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Cloud Cost Savings Not As High As Expected: Survey
The cost savings of the cloud aren't as massive as expected, a recent CSC survey of cloud users found; meanwhile, the reasons for cloud adoption are evolving.
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Synnex Preps For Rollout Of Cloud, Renewals Platforms
Synnex is in the process of rolling out its CLOUDSolv automated cloud-based app provisioning and billing platform and its RENEWSolv automated renewals platform to its Varnex community. (Read Full Article)
Whitman: PSG Too Intertwined In HP's Business To Sell, Spin Off
HP's decision to keep its Personal Systems Group, or PSG, came after analysis found that PSG is intertwined with supply chain, component pricing and ESSN, according to CEO Meg Whitman.
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: September 2011
CRN looks at September's crop of major IT executive moves, including Meg Whitman replacing Leo Apotheker, Gianfranco Lanci landing at Lenovo and more.
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What HP Needs To Do
HP needs to do a much better job of communicating with the channel and its customers about what a spin-off could mean for them.
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HP Ousts Apotheker, Partners Applaud Dismissal
HP ousted CEO Leo Apotheker and replaced him with board member Meg Whitman in the wake of several debacles, including the disclosure that HP plans to spin-off or sell its Personal Systems Group.
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