Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS.

HP will be a big player in the cloud, says Zorawar Biri Singh.  HP has worked to unify its message around the HP Converged Cloud strategy, including reportedly naming the company's former networking CTO Saar Gillai to help lead its cloud segment with Singh. "I have a big part in that, Meg [Whitman] is directly on top of it, the board members are integrally involved in it," he says. "This is a top-down strategy that is pretty well understood."

Hewlett-Packard has launched a hosted offering called HP Service Anywhere, providing IT service management (ITSM) software over the Internet.

"We believe that SaaS as a delivery model and as a business model makes sense for many of our customers," said Lee Nackman, who is HP's vice president and general manager for the company's service and portfolio management software.

Hewlett-Packard unveiled a lightweight version of its Windows-based NAS (network-attached storage) array that's aimed at small and medium businesses.

Based on the same architecture as the HP X5000-series NAS box, the new X5000 devices for small businesses use 2.5-inch drives and can scale to 32.4TB. It runs the Windows Server OS.

Central force behind development of the OS that powered HP's TouchPad is going to Google, according to a report on The Verge.
Google seems to be cornering the market on open-source operating systems.

The Web giant will soon be welcoming into its fold the Hewlett-Packard team responsible for creating Enyo, the HTLM5-based application framework for WebOS that debuted on the failed TouchPad, according to a report on The Verge. However, what they will be doing at Google remains a mystery.

HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.

Hewlett-Packard today made it official: It is merging its PC and printing units in a bid to improve the financial profile of both increasingly commoditized products.

The news, which surfaced yesterday at AllThingsD, means that Vyomesh Joshi, who led the printer unit, is retiring. The combined unit will now report to Todd Bradley.

HP said in a statement that the combination will help the company's go-to-market strategy, branding, supply chain, and customer support.

HP announced Application Transformation Solutions, a suite of services and software that provide social media-influenced collaboration tools for development teams, intelligence and management tools for the development lifecycle, a platform through which mobile apps can be distributed to customers, and a mobile app testing service offered through a partnership with Perfecto Mobile.

SFR et HP viennent de conclure un accord stratégique dans le cloud computing, avec, à la clé, un partenariat commercial assorti à l’arrivée de nouveaux services, en particulier en direction des PME.

Constatant chacun leur légitimité pour proposer aux entreprises une « offre rapprochant les télécoms et l’IT », SFR et HP ont annoncé ce 15 mars le renforcement de leur partenariat pour des offres de cloud computing.

HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft Office 365 and its on-premise equivalents.

Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will offer software including Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 using HP’s cloud data centres, whilst HP will become an Office 365 reseller.

The specific offerings include: