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HP TouchPad will make its first steps in early July in France

January 29th, 2012 No comments

The first bar of HP, TouchPad, will be landed in France in early July, days after its launch in the United States. It will be powered by WebOS, the mobile OS from Palm redemption. Presented earlier this year, the first tablet WebOS to HP, the TouchPad, will enter the French market in July, notes Silicon.fr.

The American manufacturer is thus a shot together for the launch of its product: it will arrive on July 1 in the U.S., the first week of July in Germany, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and from mid- July in Canada. The touchpad features a 9.7 inch screen with 1024 x 768 pixels (in a 19 x 24.2 x 1.37 cm. The slate is led by a powerful dual-core processor Qualcomm (APQ8060) 1, 2 GHz with 1 GB of RAM.

Initially, only the Wi-Fi version of this offer will be available in France. Grinds 16 GB and 32 GB will be accessible to the TouchPad respective retail prices of 479 Euros and 579 Euros VAT incl. HP plays the card of caution, proposing rates close to those of the iPad of Apple , though slightly lower.

If the TouchPad will struggle to dethrone Apple’s offer, its well-designed operating system could allow him to score points against the shelves Android, struggling to convince. A phenomenon that could increase later, HP is favorable to the distribution of its mobile OS to third party manufacturers, which could then be adopted within their own products.

It will also be an opportunity to check if the accusations of plagiarism against HP, Research In Motion (RIM), whose playbook is scheduled to arrive in June, are relevant.

Seeweb Coud

November 11th, 2011 No comments

Seeweb expands its data center and opens a new space in Frankfurt.

Seeweb continues its policy of investing in offering cloud services. The company possessing 3000 GB and 8000 GB of RAM CPU to use on its cloud infrastructure which is spread over 16 clusters and 2 data centers. The objective of Seeweb is to double by this year end through the expansion of the two data centers in Milan and Frosinone, and the acquisition of a new space in Frankfurt.

“IaaS solutions have proven the most appreciated and requested, so that today it represents more than 80% of the choices of our customers,“ said Antonio Baldassarre, CEO of Seeweb.

For the expansion of the data center in Milan, Seeweb has already purchased a new space – which will be ready by the end of 2011 – aims to reach a total capacity of 2 MW and will host a cluster of machines dedicated to cloud computing. Even the space in the data center of Frosinone is nearly saturated and is therefore already under way to identify a new complex.

Seeweb has also given rise to two important points of connection with European exchanges: the AMS-IX of Amsterdam and second is expected shortly regarding the DEC-IX exchange point in

The Frankfurt data center will serve as a new node for the provision of disaster recovery based on three geographical data Center Company.

Atos Origin acquires Siemens IT Solutions and Services

November 6th, 2011 No comments

The combined organization Atos and GmbH is already operational. An outsourcing contract costs around 5.5 billion Euros for 7 years.

Completing the ‘acquisition announced at the shareholders’ meeting, Atos (formerly Atos Origin) has acquired Siemens IT Solutions and Services, GmbH, the holding company that includes all the activities of Siemens IT. In particular, when determined by the shareholders, Siemens has received 15 percent of Atos capital social as well as a payment of 176 million Euros. Meanwhile, the new company changed its name from Atos Origin to Atos.

The deal creates a new company now which entered service in 2010 has amassed a turnover of approximately EUR 8.7 billion and employs 78,500 people in 42 countries. Atos also confirmed that it has signed with Siemens on its own biggest outsourcing contract worth 5.5 billion during the period of seven years for the management of the entire IT infrastructure, applications and services.

Atos is among the top ten service providers worldwide, the global number five and number one in Europe for managed services. At this point, Atos has 30 data centers that also serve 900,000 SAP users and manage in total over 90,000 servers. After a six-month program to integrate the new Atos is immediately operational.

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