Items tagged with hpe

by Shane McGlaun - Wed, Mar 25, 2020

HPE Warns Of New Firmware Flaw That Bricks SSDs After 40,000 Hours Of Use

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is warning its customers via a security advisory that there is a bug in the firmware of some of its SAS SSDs. The firmware bug will see the drive fail after reaching 40,000 hours of operation. That many hours of operation equates to four years, 206 days, and 16 hours after the storage... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Mar 04, 2020

AMD 5nm Zen 4 EPYC CPUs And Radeon Instinct GPUs To Power El Capitan Supercomputer

AMD just announced today a design win in conjunction with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), in which it will be providing the hardware powering the El Capitan exascale-class supercomputer. What caught our eye about this announcement was not the compute performance... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 27, 2019

Patch Firmware On These HPE SSDs Now Or Risk Drive Failure And Data Loss

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is advising customers to update the firmware on certain Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drives to prevent them from failing after 32,768 hours of use, which equates to 3 years, 270 days, and 8 hours. If that should happen, the data on the drive(s) would be permanently lost and... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 22, 2017

Meg Whitman To Step Down As Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO In 2018

After overseeing a massive restructuring effort, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that Meg Whitman will be stepping down as CEO effective February 1, 2018. She will be replaced by Antonio Neri, HPE's current president, who will also join the company's board of directors. Whitman will remain on the board as... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 03, 2017

HP Enterprise Accused Of Letting Russia Examine US ArcSight Military Defense System Source Code

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) allowed a Russian defense agency to comb over the source code of cyber defense software used by the Pentagon to secure its computer network from cyber attacks. It is said this was done as part of an attempt by HPE to gain the necessary certifications to see sell similar software in the... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Sat, Aug 12, 2017

SpaceX To Launch Hewlett Packard Supercomputer To ISS Next Week

Many computer hardware vendors have tossed around the expression "a supercomputer in your home!", and every time it's used, it's really incorrect - unless we're talking about comparing current tech to the supercomputers of olde. Well, if anyone ever said, "a supercomputer in space!", they can soon congratulate... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 01, 2016

Oracle To Pay HPE $3 Billion In Damages For Dropping Itanium Support

In what can be considered another legal setback for Oracle, a jury has ordered the firm to pay Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) $3 billion in damages for its decision to stop developing database software for HP's Itanium-based servers in 2011. Oracle plans to appeal the verdict, but for now it's on the hook for a... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Mon, Nov 02, 2015

HP's Mitosis, One Focused On Enterprise While HP Inc Targets SMB And Consumers

It’s interesting to see how once might tech giants can circle the drain, ending up as a hollow shell of their once powerful selves. When HP saw its fortunes crumble under the leadership of Carly Fiorina -- its first leader that didn’t come from an engineering background -- it brought in Mark Hurd to right the ship... Read more...