"We hear all the time that people are building their own servers. There are a few...that are building their own servers," she said. Whitman continued. "[But] right now, they're not building their own servers because they can't get the disk drives. So they're calling us...Yes, the Googles, the Facebooks are doing some of that, but I will tell you, they're all calling us right now because they don't have the ability to get the drives," she said, addressing the hard disk drive shortage that has resulted from the flooding in Thailand.
In the decades-long string of stupid things said by HP executives, this one stands out in my memory. Nobody from Facebook or Google considered for even a single nanosecond buying datacenter computers from HP.
It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.
If you're logged into Amazon when visiting that page, use their "Look Inside" view and search for "Hewlett" and it'll jump you right to their style rules for stories about HP.
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HPE and H-P refer to "Hewlett-Packard Enterprise" the new spin off.
We'll see how long the "private cloud" movement lasts with the results that Amazon has been posting, and with IBM hiring every OpenStack developer they can find.
For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.
I've also got a HP PSC1215 scanner/printer that is over a decade old and still works fine. I can't really speak to the overall quality of HP gear, but the few pieces of hardware I've used from them have been pretty solid.
Also, we have three managed 24/48 port switches at work that have not given me any grief.
(We also have an EliteBook 17" notebook that for its price of ~ €1700 should totally kick ass but instead seems to be the slowest notebook in the entire company. All in all, HP notebooks seem to be more trouble than their counterparts from, say, Lenovo or Dell.)
The 35s is soooo close to being a great device, but a few things drive me nuts.
What?
You know they still sell mainframes? You just don't typically see that in the news.
That and their rush job and initial over pricing of the HP Tablet (which then lead to the infamous $99 fire sale)
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It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=H-P+Winds+Down+Cloud-Computin...
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/hp-winds-down-cloudcomputing-p...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2996184/cloud-computing/hp-...
