7-Eleven Turns To HP To Streamline Operations
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The rollout of new servers and networking switches in stores is part of a five-year agreement supporting 7-Eleven&#39;s Retail Information System.
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HP is the latest to offer a server-storage product targeted to small- to mid-size businesses.
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Retail-oriented version of Windows XP Embedded will be designed to make it easier to process sales from registers, kiosks and other devices.
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Business PC customers have a new brand to get used to with the launch of Intel's vPro technology.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today unveiled three facilities in Cupertino, Calif., Singapore and Bangalore, India, as part of a $500 million investment to deliver world-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers.
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(Source: HP)  See how to simplify your data center operations, respond more quickly to the needs of your business, and get more value from your IT investment - all at one time.
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(InfoWorld) - Many of the customers attending this week's Hewlett-Packard Technology Forum in Las Vegas ran back and forth across the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino's convention center absorbing all they could about virtualization. There were 87 workshops dedicated to the new approach to improving the efficiency of data-center operations. Nick van der Zweep, HP's director of virtualization programs, had a full schedule Thursday, meeting with customers to answer their questions. Although virtualization is gaining traction, it presents new management challenges to data-center operators, van der Zweep said, discussing virtualization's promise and management issues in an interview. An edited transcript follows. IDGNS: What is your message to HP customers this week? Van der Zweep: The message is that we're heading into pervasive virtualization now. If you look back over a number of years, it was a lot of early adopters that were in the fray. Now it's really difficult to find a company that hasn't done some project. With enterprise customers and even some large-to-medium-sized customers, 75 percent of them tell us that they have already implemented a virtualization project or will implement one within 12 months. We certainly don't see 75 percent of our servers going out the door with virtualization on them. We're probably, in the ProLiant space, in the single digits, but growing fast. Of our Integrity high-end servers, probably around 60 percent of them go out with virtualization. IDGNS: Of those who are in that 75 percent, how are they deploying it? I've heard people say they're more likely to try virtualization in a part of their IT system like software testing and development than in production. Are you finding that? Van der Zweep: I've seen lots in production. When we ask for a show of hands in customer meetings of how many are using virtualization, 75 percent of the hands go up. And when we ask how many are using it in production, of the 75 percent who put their hands up only about 25 percent of them put their hands down. IDGNS: But while virtualization has its benefits, we're hearing that it adds a degree of complexity to system management that can be difficult for customers. Is that what you're hearing? Van der Zweep: Yes and no. If you think about a physical machine, you've got the hardware, and you install Windows or Linux or HP-UX or whatever, and that's it. Then you run your operations. When you put virtualization into the fray, you now get the box, and you install the hypervisor, and then you slice it up [apportioning a number of virtual machines onto the physical servers]. Some of the early adopter companies took a few people from their staff ... managing servers and put them off to the side and said, 'You are our virtualization guinea pig people'. They would learn how to manage virtualization, and the rest of the staff would stay and manage the physical boxes. But as you move more of those servers into production, that allows the staff group to reunite again. We integrated virtualization management into Systems Insight Manager so you see the whole [environment]. But you can get yourself into some trouble with virtualization. Before, you had 10 servers and 10 copies of Windows. Now you might have 10 physical servers but 50 virtual servers. You've got to manage across a much bigger virtual environment than the physical environment you had in the past. We had a lot of pleas from our customers to 'please pull this back together so we can provide better management of the virtual environment'. IDGNS: Is your virtualization manager software brand agnostic? Van der Zweep: We focus Systems Insight Manager and Virtual Machine Manager on our ProLiant servers, for instance, but if you have a Dell or IBM server with VMware installed on it, it will detect it's Dell or IBM, that there's VMware on it, and work in that environment. IDGNS: But is the interaction the same experience as if it were an HP server? Van der Zweep: For the most part. From a VMware standpoint, it's equivalent, but [it's different] when you get into hardware specifics. You can click on a ProLiant server and see the temperatures and fan speeds, and if something goes wrong, Systems Insight Manager can even call back to HP and have somebody come up to fix it without you even knowing about it. We don't do that for the Dell and IBM systems.
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One of Hewlett-Packard's enhancements helps IT managers figure out which workloads can automatically access available capacity for key applications.
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Hewlett-Packard has dropped plans to beef up its HP-UX operating system with new high availability and clustering technology it obtained in its 2002 acquisition of Compaq. The company will instead shift its development focus to new areas, as it attempts to convince customers that there is still life in its venerable Unix operating system.
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Â Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday signaled its commitment to the Intel Corp. processor architecture and carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications infrastructure, announcing it will introduce a blade server based on those specifications as part of a new hardware, software and services strategy.
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The five-year, $55 million deal is designed to help the convenience retailer improve customer service while boosting efficiency and productivity.
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Sherry Neal checked the refrigerated shelves of her 7-Eleven store, touched the screen of a small handheld computer and got an instant four-week sales history on turkey sandwiches.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is using streamlined IT management as a sales pitch for its latest line of PCs, including the first desktops to use Intel Corp.'s vPro technology bundle. A computer running the vPro bundle uses software and hardware -- including Intel's new "Conroe" Core 2 Duo processor -- to automate some aspects of IT management and network security. Intel plans to formally announce the platform Thursday, as Gateway Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. also start sellingÂ vPro-enabled desktops. HP got a jump on its competition, particularly arch-rival Dell Inc., by unveiling its new business line first. HP announced three new desktops, a workstation and six notebooks during a press conference Wednesday in New York City. Only the desktops offer the vPro option, while the other new PCs take advantage of the flurry of chips launched in recent months, including Intel's "Merom" Core 2 Duo for the notebooks and a choice of Intel's "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 or Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) "Rev. F" Next-Generation Opteron for the workstation. HP promised to make life easier for the IT managers who maintain these machines by pre-loading its OpenView Configuration Management agent on all commercial notebooks, desktops and workstations. That product has been an option in the past. OpenView will bolster Intel's Active Management Technology, an ingredient of vPro, allowing IT managers to make fewer time-consuming "desk-side" visits by booting and repairing PCs remotely, said John Snaider, HP's vice president for desktop PCs. Other business-friendly enhancements on the desktops include Trusted Platform Model (TPM) 1.2 security chips, a second hard drive for real-time data backup, and a virtual partition on the hard drive for encrypting sensitive data, said Brian Schmitz, director of desktop product marketing for HP. In contrast to its concentration on Intel-powered desktops, HP is selling the new xw9400 workstation as the AMD-powered peer of its xw8400 model. AMD-based PCs account for about one-third of HP's high-end workstation sales, since they are able to run certain Nvidia graphics cards that Intel cannot handle, said Jeff Wood, HP's director of product marketing for workstations. HP is selling the dc7700 desktop for US$643, plus a premium for the vPro option. The company will launch the dc5700 and dc5750, which will be available with either Intel or AMD chips, in the fourth quarter. The xw9400 workstation will ship later in September for $1,800. The notebooks include the HP Compaq 9400 for $1,299; 8400 for $1,449; nx7400 for $849; nc6400 for $1,199; 6300 for $799; and 4400 for $1,479. DetailedÂ information about the new systems can be found at Hewlett-Packard's Web site. Â
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Giant retailer 7-Eleven announced this week that it will transition its 5,300 convenience stores from using a DOS-based batch data-processing handheld to a somewhat newer CE.net-based device.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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Computer giant Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to sell to small and medium-size companies.
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U.S. computer company Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday it was expanding a built-to-order system for personal computers and other high volume computer products, similar to rival Dell.
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Hewlett-Packard has joined with Brocade to integrate Brocade&#39;s storage area network switching technology into HP Bladesystem servers to reduce the amount of fabric infrastructure needed in a datacentre.