HP Designjet 110plus Printer
January 20, 2010 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
As the name suggests, HP’s Designjet 110plus printer is essentially meant for people in the design profession. Any printing assignments involving intricate artwork, color, thin-lined architectural designs, or digital paintings with minute details, which any other printer will make a mess of, can be comfortably delegated to Designjet 110plus.
The printer has the capability to take on jobs of variety of sizes, from postcard to poster, because of three independent paper paths that are built into its scaffolding. Users find it very rugged and sensitive at the same time, as it can face the rough and tough of rigid print media that are 300 gsm thick, and is equally at ease with coated, glossy, bright white, proofing matte and proofing semigloss sheets.
Measuring 41 inch X 16.3 inch X 8.7 inch, the device weighs 48.5 pounds and is surprisingly light for the functions it performs. An inbuilt memory of 64 MB remembers the next set of sheets it has to print, so a high-speed computer does not really overwhelm it. The brain of the printer is the 16Mhz Impala 2 ASIC processor, which manages all the activities of the device without any sweat.
The HP Designjet 110plus printer carries a tag of USD 1,044.99.
Read more about this versatile printer from HP, here.
New Solutions From HP For Mission Critical Environments
December 23, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Palo Alto, California-headquartered HP has upgraded its “NonStop” system offering with a new set of features.
When it was introduced in 1974, Tandem Computer’s NonStop system was the first fault-tolerant system in the world. The system was offered as a solution with not one single point of failure. The solution immediately became a hot favorite of industries such as banking, telecom, government and healthcare because of the high degree of reliability. In 2002, after the HP-Compaq merger, NonStop System came into HP’s fold.
The company has brought out some new enhancements to the NonStop portfolio: The BladeCluster Express 1.2 enables managing enterprise data center systems that are spread over large geographies. The SOAP 4.0 software integrates with open source software such as Spring, Apache Axis 2, MyFaces and Hibernate to aggregate “islands” of information across an enterprise. The SQL 2.3 database now provides simplified software programming and better application capacity, according to the company release.
The servers from HP are deployed in heterogeneous operating environments such as multiple flavors of Unix, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and the like.
iPAQ Glisten Mobile Phone From HP And AT&T
December 9, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Hewlett-Packard Development Company and AT&T Inc have announced the launch of a new mobile / cell phone in the market. The device is called iPAQ Glisten, and is available for USD 229.99. AT&T is offering a USD 50 promotion card with a two-year agreement along with this device.
iPAQ Glisten is built on 3G technology and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. It has a 2.5″ diagonal touchscreen that is built on touch-enabled AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology, and a 5-way directional QWERTY keypad. The machine comes with 256 MB SDRAM / 512 MB Flash. The device syncs with any desktop using softwares such as Active Sync or Microsoft Exchange. Users can browse through the web using Internet Explorer Mobile 6, and leverage the telecom infrastructure of AT&T in the background, and a dedicated on/off button gives them instant access to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots. For select smartphone data plans, this access comes free. The device comes with Microsoft Office’s Mobile version, so apps such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint can be used as easily as on a desktop.
Read about the latest entrant in the mobile telephony world, here.
HP Launches New Touch-Enabled PCs, Notebooks And Signage
October 22, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Palo Alto, California-headquartered Hewlett-Packard Development Company LLP has announced the launch of a set of new machines and devices that are touch-enabled.
In the PC segment, the company has launched three machines. TouchSmart 300 sports a 20” monitor and AMD Athlon II processor and costs USD 899. TouchSmart 600 comes with a 23” monitor and runs on Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and is available at USD 1,049. TouchSmart 9100 is tagged as a machine meant for businesses, comes with 23” widescreen display and Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and can be bought for USD 1,299.
In the notebook segment, HP has launched TouchSmart tx2, which comes with 12.1” WXGA (1,280X800) display and is touted as the world’s first notebook with touch-screen, runs on AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core processor, and has a price tag of USD 799.
In the signage segment, HP has come out with 4200tm, which has a 42” diagonal wide-aspect LCD Active Matrix display, 1,920X1,080 full HD native resolution, and can bought for USD 2,799.
All these products are scheduled to be available from November / December 2009.
Read about the latest launch of a slew of products in the touch-enabled domain by an IT leader, here.
HP Acquires Data Storage Technology Company
July 29, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Palo Alto, California-headquartered Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP has announced the acquisition of Billerica, Massachusetts-headquartered IBRIX Inc.
IBRIX is a data storage technology company that has been a HP partner since 2006. The company specializes in developing file-serving softwares. Its flagship product is the IBRIX Fusion, which is an enterprise-class software suite comprising parallel file system with data protection features that can be installed on any server with connection to any storage device. Because of its server agnosticity, customers can switch between server hardware without having to change their entire data storage equipment. The product does not require a central metadata server or distributed lock manager.
Founded in 2000, IBRIX has 53 employees and a 175-strong enterprise customer base. The company’s software is currently deployed on a number of HP’s products such as ProLiant Servers, BladeSystem, ProCurve and StorageWorks.
Once the legal formalities have been completed, the company will be integrated into the StorageWorks division in HP’s Technology Solutions Group. The value of the acquisition is not known.
For HP, the acquisition implies that its offering in storage-related solutions becomes more competitive and also promises tighter integration with its storage products.
Read more about the latest acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, here.
