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HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by stordoff »

esaym wrote: post #23
pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

The microservers weren't too bad: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d... For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.

I'll second that. I used one for about three years with Windows Server 2008, primarily as a NAS and for playing around with Windows domains. Cost me less than £100 (plus HDDs), held five 1.5TB hard drives, ran near silent, and was reliable.

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.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by iheartmemcache »

esaym wrote: post #23
pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

The microservers weren't too bad: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d... For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.

Their storage is a good value for the money too. If you want to talk enterprise, the NonStop Integrity platform is as reliable as z/OS. That's real niche though. That's about it though. Their enterprise software is as bad as CA. They aren't really innovating anything interesting.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by __glibc_malloc »

ics wrote: post #5
ubercow wrote: post #2

I can't say I've ever seen someone refer to Hewlett-Packard as H-P before now. I've always seen it just as HP.

WSJ seems to do it regularly in 2015[1], though they're not totally consistent. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=h-p+site%3Awsj.com&oq=h-p+si...

Consider using a 0 based index, instead of 1, as it is easier on the eyes.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

Let's just remember that HP is led by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of large scale cloud computing:

"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.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by edwhitesell »

bruceb wrote: post #14
transfire wrote: post #10

I'll never forget what they did to Palm, so wither HP, wither.

Long live the Palm Pre. WebOS and the card system was years before iOS had something similar. Palm created something good but still need improvement. HP made situation worse. That and their rush job and initial over pricing of the HP Tablet (which then lead to the infamous $99 fire sale)

The $149 each I paid for a couple of the maxed out tablets was money well spent. I still keep them on the coffee table and pop open a browser when I want to look something up really quick. As long as I don't leave WiFi enabled when not in use, battery life is measured in months.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

avn2109 wrote: post #25
pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

Do you count Agilent products as HP? Probably not, but if so they make a bunch of pretty solid instruments. And arguably the name "HP" should be associated with the entity that today we call "Agilent."

Did you mean Agilent as in Agilent, or Keysight, or Avago?

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by MichaelGG »

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #36

Let's just remember that HP is led by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of large scale cloud computing: "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 Facebook…

I don't understand. It sounds like she's just saying they are calling HP to buy drives for their own servers. Which easily may have been true right?

It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by dendory »

HP is everywhere in the enterprise, from servers to desktops and every peripheral in between. I doubt they are going away any time soon. But as tech evolves, it does seem like the company is being left behind. I predict another IBM in the making.

You know they still sell mainframes? You just don't typically see that in the news.

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