Carahsoft Technology Corp. has been selected to receive the HP PartnerOne Award in the Growth Reseller of the Year Americas category by Hewlett-Packard. HP presented the award to Carahsoft during the 2014 HP Global Partner Conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Carahsoft announced Thursday. Executives for the HP Channel organization give the award to partners […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts that the market for big data platforms worldwide will grow at a compound annual rate of 25.52 percent to $46.34 billion by 2018. The report provides an analysis of big data market trends by product and service type, by region and by vertical segment, the market research and consulting firm said […] More

Hewlett-Packard will build a research and development center at the University of South Australia, itnews said Monday. Allie Coyne writes a $5.5 million grant will be provided by the Australian government for the Innovation and Collaboration Center to be located at the university’s city west campus. “Students, graduates, commercialisation experts and industry have opportunities to explore new ideas […] More

Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a potential eight-year contract to help the state of Texas install a new pension administration system intended to serve more than 1 million active and 300,000 retired teachers. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas manages a $120 billion trust fund that was started to finance member benefits and manage accounts, HP said […] More

Hewlett-Packard has released the results of a research report that sought to identify enterprise security risks and analyze the threat landscape. HP Security Research’s cyber risk report cited mobile device usage, insecure software and Java applications as among the main contributors to the growing attacks in 2013, HP said Monday. “Adversaries today are more adept than ever […] More

Air France has selected a Hewlett Packard cloud management platform to monitor physical and virtual cloud computing resources across the airline’s enterprise. The French carrier uses HP’s Cloud Service Automation system with Operations Orchestration and Server Automation software programs to automate application deployments and server provisioning in a private cloud network, HP said Jan. 14. […] More

Hewlett Packard‘s intrusion prevention systems have been selected by Switzerland’s national railway company to defend its infrastructure against security threats. Swiss Federal Railways adopted HP’s TippingPoint 7500NX and Security Management System XL platforms as part of the operator’s routing network modernization effort, HP said Tuesday. “Even with strong security measures already in place, the highly […] More

Four companies have won task orders worth up to $60 million combined to develop tools and sensors for the Department of Homeland Security to scan its network for security risks, Federal Times reported Thursday. Nicole Blake Johnson writes these awards fall under DHS’ $6 billion continuous monitoring program, which is handled by the General Services Administration. […] More

Hewlett Packard has teamed with SAP to offer a set of enterprise-grade tools for customers to manage, secure and customize mobile applications, Biztech2 reported Monday. The HP Starter Pack for SAP Mobile Platform works to leverage HP’s portfolio of servers, tablets and enterprise services and enable interactive communications on any device, according to the article. […] More