HP and Oracle settle legal spat over Hurd hiring
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have agreed to settle
their legal spat over the hiring of Mark Hurd. HP decided to sue Hurd after the vendor's former
CEO joined Oracle as co-president earlier this month. At the time of the announcement, HP claimed
that Hurd was breaching his severance agreement. Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.
NovaStor becomes VMware Tech Alliance Partner
Data protection vendor NovaStor has partnered
with VMware. As a VMwareTechnology Alliance Partner, NovaStor plans to exploit the potential of
its complete range of NovaBACKUP products. The vendor's portfolio ranges from backup for single
workstations and servers in SMEs to solutions for Internet
service providers.
AuthenWare is Citrix Ready
Cyber security software provider AuthenWare is now Citrix Ready for use
with XenApp. The vendor's offering combines keystroke dynamics with behavioural techniques to
create a personal security pattern to recognise authorised users only, thus reducing identity
theft, Web fraud and system vulnerability.
New chief marketing officer for Dell
Dell has promoted Karen Quintos to the position of chief marketing officer, as Erin
Mulligan Nelson left the company to join software firm Bazaarvoice. Qunitos gets her promotion
after 10 years at the company. She was most recently vice president of marketing for Dell's global
public business. Reporting to Chairman Michael Dell, she aims to lead brand strategy, global comms,
social media, global research, corporate responsibility, agency management and marketing talent
development.
Microsoft releases Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
Microsoft has released Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, aimed at traditional HPC markets such as
finance, scientific research and modeling operations. The new release is designed to improve
integration with applications such as Excel.
Kayleigh Bateman is the Site Editor of SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk.
