Dell reignites HP-3Par war

Hardware giant Dell has resumed its feud with HP by accusing its arch-rival of paying over the odds for storage vendor 3Par, reports CRN.

The two firms became embroiled in a bidding war for 3Par last August, with HP emerging victorious by offering $2.35 billion for the vendor. Dell revealed several months later that it had signed a merger agreement worth $960 million with storage vendor Compellent.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dell founder Michael Dell said his firm had shown restraint by bowing out when it did. "We showed a good discipline and didn't take an emotional decision. I think HP paid way too much for 3Par."

Chipmaker Intel is developing a security technology that its chief technology officer (CTO) has claimed will defend against zero-day attacks at hardware storage level, states ZDnet.

Intel's CTO Justin Rattner, says: "We've found a new approach that stops the most virulent attacks. It will stop zero-day scenarios. Even if we've never seen it, we can stop it dead in its tracks."

Intel had been working on the technology prior to the acquisition of security firm McAfee, Rattner says. However, that did not mean that McAfee had not become subsequently involved, he adds.

HP has stepped up its cloud computing effort by releasing a portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and has indicated plans to jump into public cloud hosting, says Virtualisation Review.

The tech giant has unveiled HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute and CloudSystem. ECS-Compute is a cloud services offering for enterprise applications and CloudSystem is a portfolio of converged systems consisting of servers, storage and network interfaces.

Those systems are loaded with software allowing customers and partners to run their own on-site clouds.