The two companies have already established centres to pre-configure and pre-test components for mySAP supply chain management software with HP hardware. Up to 300 HP consultants will co-operate in sales and marketing, with SAP targeting enterprises...
The method of component construction will allow systems to be adapted to clients' specific requirements. Microsoft will mainly be installed in the lower range - from desktop up to mid-range server, and Java from the midframe up to the enterprise...
It has the density of a blade but the architecture of a supercomputer. Floor space in computing rooms is valuable, so reducing the size of computers saves money and expands the places where these systems can be installed.
The three progenitors to Nimbus are Insight Manager, Windows management software from Compaq, Toptools Device Manager from HP and Servicecontrol Manager from HP. The software, due to arrive by the end of 2003, includes components taken from both HP...
Some of the UDC tools, for instance, are now part of HP's BladeSystem for controlling blade servers. As a result, few customers ever installed it, HP representative Don Gentile said. Hewlett-Packard is getting rid of one of its high-profile utility...
But on the downside, it can be more difficult to configure open source systems. Nigel Fortlage, vice president of IT at Winnipeg-based brokering company GHY International, has been using open source software for nine years within the hundred-strong...