HP to acquire VoodooPC computer games
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Hewlett-Packard will acquire Canada's computer game manufacturer VoodooPC, and will form a separate business unit focused on the video game industry, HP has said in a statement.
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- Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N on Tuesday said it   received a 10-year contract from the U.S. Army to provide   personal computers and other computer peripherals.
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Hewlett-Packard has acquired the business of British computing services company Synstar for $293 million.
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By MATT SLAGLE   Associated Press writer  HOUSTON -- Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Co. has bought IT services company Synstar plc, of Bracknell, England for about $293.3 million. Synstar has some 1,500 customers across Europe, selling IT support for various computer platforms.
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The chip giant has announced plans to buy a developer of digital-media creation software and services.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire IT services company Knightsbridge Solutions Holding for an undisclosed sum. Knightsbridge helps to design IT architectures for managing large volumes of data. It specializes in helping clients to deploy technologies for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration. The company has 700 employees. Based in Chicago, it has offices in London and throughout the U.S. HP expects to close the deal in about 30 days subject to closing conditions. Knightsbridge will become part of its HP Services organization. HP recentlyÂ completed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive. OtherÂ recent HP acquisitions include OuterBay, which makes database archiving software.
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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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Logicalis, one of Hewlett-Packard&#39;s largest enterprise server and storage solution providers, Monday reached an agreement to acquire Solution Technology Inc.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to buy data center automation software vendor Opsware Inc. for about US$1.6 billion.
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Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O has agreed to   a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N to have Yahoo search   and other services appear on HP personal computers sold in the   United States and Europe, the company said on Thursday.
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PC maker plans to acquire Bristol Technology, a maker of software for monitoring complex business transactions.
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Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that it will acquire two companies expected to improve the Silicon Valley giant&#39;s business technology offerings. Opsware, a data center automation software company founded by Netscape creator Marc Andreessen and acquired for roughly $1.6 billion, will boost HP&#39;s data center portfolio, while NeoWare, acquired for $334 million, will help HP with thin-client technology.
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Hewlett-Packard Co  on  Wednesday launched a line of powerful new computers aimed  squarely at gamers, in the company&#39;s latest step to court a  small-but-influential audience.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market. HP on Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire PolyServe Inc., of Beaverton, Oregon, but did not disclose the terms of the transaction. PolyServe has 117 employees. With PolyServe's software, information from file or database servers can be consolidated into a single, shared pool of storage that is highly available and can be expanded to match business demands, HP said in a news release. PolyServe, founded in 1999, has been an HP partner for the last two years. Its software can run on HP's storage arrays and Proliant servers in Linux and Microsoft Corp. Windows environments. The acquisition also means HP can run PolyServe software on NAS blade servers. Blades are the fastest growing segment of the server industry. HP placed second to EMC Corp. in storage hardware revenue in the third quarter of 2006, according to a report from IDC. HP held 17.6 percent of the worldwide market in the third quarter with sales of US$760 million, while EMC lead with a 21.4 percent share on revenue of $927 million.
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(InfoWorld) - It's been a busy Monday for Hewlett-Packard as the company announced not one, but two proposed purchases. Somewhat overshadowed by theÂ $1.6 billion HP is forking overÂ toÂ acquire datacenter automation specialist Opsware,Â is the $241 million the vendor is offering for Neoware. Publicly traded Neoware provides Linux- and Windows-based thin-client computing devices as well as thin-client and virtualization software. HP's keen to use Neoware to expand its existing thin-client business. "Our objective is to become the preferred brand of thin clients and software for virtualized client computing," said Kevin Frost, vice president of business desktops with HP's personal systems group, in a release. HP's offer values Neoware at $16.25 per share. Neoware's shares ended trading Friday at $15.24 and by midday Monday were trading up 3.7 percent at $15.81. Subject to shareholder approval, the acquisition is set to close in the fourth quarter of calendar 2007. On becoming part of HP, Neoware will be incorporated into the vendor's business desktop unit of its personal systems group. Neoware's partners include ClearCube Technology, IBM, Microsoft, and VMware. Publicly traded Neoware has its headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania as well as offices in Europe and Asia. Â
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Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it will pay $1.6 billion in cash to acquire Opsware Inc., a software company founded by Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen that helps companies lower the cost and complexity of running their data centers by automating certain management tasks.