Update: HP reports solid Q4 on services growth
Hewlett-Packard reported an 18% jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks to cost-cutting efforts and the strength of its services business. Read more...

HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers

HP unveils new scale-out servers

Unpatched SMB bug crashes Windows 7, researcher says

Intel to roll out new low-cost and high-end SSDs

Cisco, EMC, VMware get joint cloud-computing venture rolling in Asia

ArcSight adds unstructured log analysis to Logger 4

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