Here’s an Information Week article talking about how HP used data mining to predict consumer behavior. The project was completed by HP Labs and HP Global Customer Intelligence.
Aug 27
As HP is announcing major changes to their consumer hardware strategy, they are also making an acquisition of British software company, Autonomy. Autonomy specializes in the analysis of unstructured data. Check out the New York Times article or the O’Reilly Radar article.
Jan 07
Microsoft has recently located one of their data centers in a barn. HP has tried putting a data center in a tent.
Dec 29
Mark Hurd, CEO of HP, has refocused HP on data warehousing. He encouraged HP engineers to meld decades-old technology inherited from the Compaq Computer acquisition with H. data analysis software to create a product called NeoView. Check out the NY Times Article.
