HP users say corporate split might work

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Should you buy an HP PC after the plan to split? Can't fix it, can't sell it: HP gives PC business to investors Network World Daily News PM October 06, 2014 HP users say corporate split might work ORLANDO - Enterprise users see Hewlett-Packard's surprise decision to split itself as a good move -- as long as it leads to improvements in prices, services and support.But the mechanics of the separation, which will take a year, are also raising questions about how HP will deliver services and support to companies as it goes through the process.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD It's official: HP will break itself in two +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Should you buy an HP PC after the plan to split? 2. Can't fix it, can't sell it: HP gives PC business to investors 3. Secret ad beacon network uncovered, shut down in New York City 4. VMware's Casado talks about evolving SDN use cases, including a prominent role for security 5. Gartner: Make way for digital business, risks or die? 6. iPhone 6 Plus accounts for about 20% of new iPhones 7. Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp a done deal at $22 billion 8. New products of the week 10.06.14 9. Redfish spec wiggles servers free from vendor lock-in 10. Researchers unveil COWL, a new system to protect surfers' privacy 11. Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9 and jump to Windows 10? WEBCAST: Kaminario Introducing K2's 5th Generation The Kaminario K2 is an enterprise-grade, general-purpose, all-Flash storage array designed to work with the mixed workloads of OLTP, analytic and virtualized applications. Watch this 2 minute video to get a quick overview of this high-performance, cost-efficient storage platform, its architecture and enterprise-class features. Learn More>> Should you buy an HP PC after the plan to split? Should you buy a Hewlett-Packard PC (or tablet, or printer)? That question that certainly is on some customers' minds after the company's announcement Monday that it will split its PC and printer operation from its enterprise, software and services business.HP's customers had a similar concern when HP first floated the idea of breaking up the company in 2011. At that time, HP had no plan in place, but the company this time knows what it is doing, said Patrick Moorhead, president at Moor Insights and Strategy.When former HP CEO Leo Apotheker proposed the breakup three years ago, "it was just the PC business he was going to separate, not PC plus printer, and he didn't actually have a plan, but a communication that he was looking into a spin-off," Moorhead said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Can't fix it, can't sell it: HP gives PC business to investors Hewlett-Packard's breakup into two companies in a tax-free distribution of shares, as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, was the company's third choice to save itself. The first two – a turnaround and the sale of the business – haven't worked. According to Re/Code, HP approached both Dell and Lenovo to acquire the business and were rebuffed. Under PC and printer chief Dion Weisler, the business unit has started growing again, but it appears that HP's boat has been raised by the incoming tide of a new cycle of PC growth, which Richard Windsor of Radio Free Mobile once predicted. But in the longer term, the PC business isn't a growth business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Secret ad beacon network uncovered, shut down in New York City The discovery of secret beacons installed in New York City pay phone booths opens up some questions. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell | Symantec Strategies for Gaining Control and Securing Mobility We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Numbers of mobile devices are growing with some experts predicting that employees will be carrying three or more devices. Growth is not limited to just devices. As the number of enterprise apps rapidly expands, "an app for everything" is a slogan few would question. Learn More VMware's Casado talks about evolving SDN use cases, including a prominent role for security Martin Casado, who helped launch the Software Defined Networking concept in the labs at Stanford, was recently elevated to the top business slot in VMware's Networking and Security Business Unit, giving him the rare opportunity to see the technology through from the incubator to the data center. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix sat down with Casado for an update on the company and his thoughts on how the technology is maturing.  Martin Casado, Senior Vice President of VMware's Networking and Security business unitTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Gartner: Make way for digital business, risks or die? ORLANDO -- Change, change and more radical change: That is the opening theme at this year's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. While the notion of IT changing is nothing new really, Gartner says the shift towards everything virtual – what it calls the Digital Business – is more intense than years' past. +More on Network World: World's craziest Halloween coffins+  For example in his opening keynote Garter's Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president and global head of research said that since 2013 650 million new physical objects have come online. 3D printers became a billion dollar market; 10% of cars became connected; and the number of Chief Data Officers and Chief Digital Officer jobs have doubled.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE iPhone 6 Plus accounts for about 20% of new iPhones Although Apple's iPhone 6 Plus remains in short supply, its portion of total iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales has increased over the last two weeks, according to analysis of usage-tracking data. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Hybrid IT—A Low-Risk Path from On-Premise to ITaaS IT as a Service (ITaaS) will transform future IT operations and service delivery. In the interim, Hybrid IT offers a rational, gradual approach in which some services move to SaaS while others remain on-premise. Learn More Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp a done deal at $22 billion Facebook said Monday it had closed its acquisition of messaging app WhatsApp, giving the social network a massively popular service for mobile messaging.The deal, when first announced earlier this year, was to cost Facebook $16 billion plus up to $3 billion in additional Facebook stock options to WhatsApp's founders. Now as of close the deal is worth around $21.8 billion total, based on the higher value of Facebook's stock.Closure of the deal was announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE New products of the week 10.06.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and HP READ MORE Redfish spec wiggles servers free from vendor lock-in A new, smarter, out-of-band communications specification aims to replace the aging, fragmented IPMI READ MORE Researchers unveil COWL, a new system to protect surfers' privacy Researchers have developed a new web privacy system that they believe will 'revolutionize' safe surfing; the new COWL (Confinement with Origin Web Labels) system works with Firefox and Chromium to ensure users' privacy while giving design flexibility to web app developers READ MORE Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9 and jump to Windows 10? Microsoft earlier this week introduced Windows 10 to the world, an interesting move considering that the last major update to Windows was Windows 8. Of course, a question on everyone's mind was, "What in the world happened to Windows 9?"During the official unveiling for Redmond's latest OS, Microsoft explained that the forthcoming update was so great that it warranted a '10' moniker. In other words, just as OS X marked a new beginning for the Mac, Microsoft may too believe that Windows 10 will mark a new chapter in the history of Windows. While this may have been a consideration, another theory has emerged via Reddit that, if true, would be just downright comical.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Ping Identity BYOD – It's Not about the Device BYOD creates issues with protecting business applications and data. It is hard to protect these devices with the traditional model of IAM. 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