HP Virtualization Journal

Seems just the other day - actually it was two weeks ago - that we divined that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped, then open sourced - life's funny like that - in shape to publish the code in stages. And what do you know - surprise, surprise - HP Wednesday committed to a timetable for getting the thing out in steps by September under the lenient Apache 2.0 license. See, here's the schedule: Timing Milestone/Code published January Enyo 2.0 and Enyo source code Apache License, Version 2.0 February Intended project governance model QT WebKit extensions JavaScript core UI Enyo widgets March Linux standard kernel Graphics extensions EGL LevelDB USB extensions April Ares 2.0 Enyo 2.1 Node services July System manager ("Luna") System manager bus Core applicatio... (more)

HP Puts Activist Shareholder on Board

Activist investor Relational Investors LLC has reportedly taken a ~1% position in Hewlett-Packard and its co-founder Ralph Whitworth has gotten a seat on the inimitably dysfunctional HP board. His appointment will raise the number of seats to 14. According to Bloomberg Whitworth took advantage of the precipitous plunge in HP's stock price on August 18 when former HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that HP was buying Autonomy for close to $10.3 billion, abandoning webOS devices and might dump its PC business, a move it nixed last month. Apparently he kept buying through September. ... (more)

Connectria Hosting Achieves "Off the Chart" Operational Efficiency With Cloud-Based Storage Solution From Nexsan and CommVault

THOUSAND OAKS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting company, has deployed the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™ in support of the company's cloud-based backup and recovery services for enterprise clients. In combination with CommVault® Simpana® data and information management software, Nexsan's storage systems have dramatically improved Connectria's backup and recovery efficiency when compared to the previously deployed solution. Connectria H... (more)

End-User Participation to Provide Unique Forum for Peer Collaboration at 2012 Technology Convergence Conference

TELADATA, a leading consulting firm specializing in IT infrastructure design, planning and project management, today announced that its 2012 Technology Convergence Conference (TCC) will feature end-user presentations that facilitate peer collaboration on data-center trends and strategies. The TCC will offer four tracks highlighting converging IT and facilities technologies, energy-efficiency improvement methodologies, data center infrastructure management tools, and large-scale project planning. Pascal Finette, Director of Mozilla’s Web Forward Program (WebFWD), will keynote the... (more)

HP Gets No Itanium Relief from the French

France's antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence Tuesday refused to order Oracle to keep on supporting Itanium with its software on grounds there was no immediate threat to HP although it has clearly hurt its sales. However, the regulator promised HP it will continue investigating the complaint HP made last summer. The process is going to take way longer than HP can afford. The regulator also rejected HP's request that it order Oracle to align the Itanium pricing on its database with x86 pricing. HP accused Oracle of discriminating. HP has sued Oracle in the US over Ita... (more)