Stephen Lawson

The former Cisco executive brings long experience running enterprise and service provider units at the networking giant. Bates will also become a member of Skype's board of directors

The U.S. carrier wanted to make sure it could get the attention of infrastructure and device vendors before more established mobile operators stole the stage.rn

Orange Business Services is planning an audio conference with the three-way data-centre partnership. The group was formed to combine networking, storage, computing and virtualization components in prepackaged "VBlocks" for constructing data centres

Cisco Systems Inc.

HP led in enterprise disk products but won't get a big boost from 3Par's small sales total. Find out more about the market

Open source network operating system also includes Layer 2 cloud bridging and stateful failover

The new Palm unit will be responsible for future slate PCs and netbooks, HP said. Palm's WebOS platform will play a key role, the company added

The traditional roles of server OSes are being performed by new programming frameworks and a virtualization layer, he said. Maritz added these developments are helping enterprises run old and new applications in a more efficient, cloud-like manner