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HP issues research challenge to universities
May. 07, 2008
HP Wednesday issued a call for academic institutions to submit proposals for research projects relating to one of HP's five core research areas: information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, ...
Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey
May. 05, 2008
In what is sure to become more fodder for Mac vs. PC ads, Consumer Reports' latest tech-support survey shows that Apple has the best help-desk support for both laptop and desktop systems.
HP unveils encryption add-ons for storage products
Apr. 04, 2008
HP Monday is unveiling add-ons for its storage products that enable automated encryption of data stored on tape drives and virtual tape libraries.
Microsoft faces challenges in expanding management strategy
May. 01, 2008
Microsoft last week set it sites on becoming a dominant enterprise management vendor, but experts and users say first it will have to define the scope of its goals, improve the platform, and prove it can be the ...
HP researchers build intelligent memory
May. 01, 2008
Researchers at HP have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained.
Battery shortage could hurt small PC vendors, says Quanta
Apr. 29, 2008
A shortage of batteries and other components could hurt smaller PC vendors, although the top 10 vendors are unlikely to be unaffected, the world's largest contract laptop manufacturer said Tuesday.
Interop network goes all-out virtual
Apr. 29, 2008
The world's largest temporary network, which powers Interop, sheds physical servers by going virtual.
IBM lures HP customers, reuses their abandoned HP gear
Mar. 20, 2008
IBM's new rebate program for customers who use HP PA-RISC systems coincides with IBM's System p 550 Express Unix server launch.
Citrix, HP team up on virtualization-enabled servers
Mar. 20, 2008
A Citrix-HP partnership accelerates a trend of embedding server virtualization software into hardware.
Comprehensive security needed to prevent printer hacking
Apr. 22, 2008
Inadequate authentication and insufficient print activity records can compromise security. In general, there is little or no control over the IT infrastructure responsible for printing.
HP gear supports and simplifies Microsoft NAP
Apr. 22, 2008
HP is announcing that its gear supports Microsoft NAP and claiming that it also makes NAP simpler to configure.
HP's Upline hosted storage service remains down
Apr. 22, 2008
HP said its new online storage service will protect your data
ProCurve gear compatible with Microsoft NAP
Apr. 21, 2008
HP ProCurve Monday announced that its gear supports Microsoft Network Access Protection and also makes NAP simpler to configure.
HP unveils mobile thin client
Jan. 24, 2008
HP is unveiling its first mobile thin client and dramatically increasing investments in thin client technology.
HP launches diet desktop with solid-state drive
Jan. 24, 2008
HP Wednesday introduced a business desktop with a slim form factor that packs a flash-based solid-state drive, giving the system faster boot times than PCs with hard drives.
Stake in China HP for sale to the highest bidder
Jan. 09, 2008
A 30% stake in HP's Chinese operations is up for sale to the highest bidder as the company's Chinese partner looks to sell its shares.
HP unveils application modernization tools
Apr. 08, 2008
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday planned to announce a beefed-up set of offerings for application modernization, including a set of tools for visualizing the composition of legacy code and plans for modernization
HP ships ultraportable laptop with Via inside, not Intel
Apr. 08, 2008
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its Compaq 2133 ultraportable laptop, which uses a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan's Via Technologies instead of a chip from Intel.
HP's 2133: Tiny laptop an adult can really use
Apr. 08, 2008
HP Monday entered the affordable mini-notebook category with its eye-catching HP 2133.
HP bids on e-discovery vendor Tower Software
Apr. 01, 2008
HP signs a pre-bid agreement to acquire Tower Software, an Australian maker of document and records management software.
The Inside Track on 10GBE Access Switch Testing
Mar. 24, 2008
Network World Lab Alliance member David Newman talks aobut his recent compartive test of 10GBE access switches
Review shows HP, Foundry, Extreme give Cisco a run for access switch market share - Network ...
Mar. 24, 2008
Our tests found seven next-generation switches bristle with features that don't exist in many previous models - not just physical features like 10-gigabit Ethernet uplinks but also 802.1X-based network access control ...
Features abound in latest and greatest access switch models
Mar. 24, 2008
While this test's key takeaway may be the big differences in new features, the good news is that, with a very few exceptions, all switches support the same basic L2/L3 functions
Review of switch usability centers on CLI comfort zone
Mar. 24, 2008
Any assessment of switch usability is necessarily subjective. While there are some objective measures that can be applied (for example, it might take 17 steps to enable SSH on one switch, and only five on another), ...
10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter for HP blade server announced
Mar. 18, 2008
NetEffect this week introduced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter for HP's BladeSystem c-Class server blades that HP says is the smallest and consumes the least power of any adapters for the system.
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HP profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 3
2004 NW200 rank: 2
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
86696 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
8% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
18% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
2398 |
| Change from '04 |
|
-31 |
| As percentage of revenue 3 |
|
3 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
56 |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
150000 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
-1
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
577973 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
93820 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1947 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Oct |
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