A critical Windows vulnerability that was one of several exploited by the notorious Stuxnet worm as long ago as 2008 was not completely patched until just yesterday, a security researcher said.
As more computing moves to cloud-based data centers, Hewlett-Packard is moving there, too.
Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane, a developer of a native networking stack for Docker software.
HP has joined the disaggregation party through two partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems.
Hewlett-Packard's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) today outlined the rules for its annual hacking contest, Pwn2Own, which will run March 18-19 with $465,000 in prize money on the table.
Microsoft last week said that revenue generated from sales of Windows licenses to computer and device makers dropped $455 million, or 13 per cent, when compared to the same period a year prior.
It's a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways. Often the friction begins when one pal sparks an interest in what had always been the other pal's unspoken domain. In the programming language version of this movie, it's the introduction of Node.js that turns the buddy flick into a grudge match: PHP and JavaScript, two partners who once ruled the Internet together but now duke it out for the mind share of developers.
The best and most noteworthy products and technologies found at CES 2015.
The new Apple iPhone 6 Plus phablet was nowhere to be found among all the blockbuster Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals last month, but <a href="http://www.walmart.com/cp/iPhone-6/1228448?wmlspartner=TnL5HPStwNw&sourceid=30182817552573327969&oid=183959.1&u1=skim14610X714040X4231bc0f46c307c3f85af48283353e23&affillinktype=10&veh=aff">Walmart</a> has surprised this week by announcing a deep discount on the smartphones through February.
Cisco is getting a lift from apparent momentum behind its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure fabric. Investment firm UBS boosted its Cisco stock price targets after discussions with EMEA chief Chris Dedicoat yielded numbers UBS found encouraging.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who has never held public office and was fired from her HP job in 2005, is considering a run for president. And why not?
<em>Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President of Product and Service Management for HP Cloud, brings an interesting perspective to his job given his former role as General Manager of Product Management for Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix and Senior Editor Brandon Butler got Hilf on the line for his big picture view of the importance of OpenStack, why HP recently acquired Eucalyptus, the impetus to compete on price, and the various cloud delivery options customers are pursuing.</em>
Walmart, which already has leaked its Black Friday deals on Apple, Dell, HP and other tech products, just couldn't stand the lull between now and the day after Thanksgiving. So it has started promoting a Pre-Black Friday event for this Friday, Nov. 21, starting at 8am, that will also feature plenty of bargains on electronics.
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. has set 2023 as the target date for producing the next great leap in supercomputing, if its plans aren't thwarted by two presidential and four Congressional elections between now and then.
The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.