HP to manage BP data centres

Oil and gas firm, BP, has signed a $400 million deal with HP to manage its data centre requirements, reveals IT News.

The British-held resources company had outsourced its data centre management to HP previously, but under the new five-year, $400 million deal, HP will standardise and consolidate BP's data centre operations across Europe and North America and use HP's Indian operations to drive down costs.

The deal, signed just prior to Christmas, includes enterprise hosting, monitoring, back-up and recovery and database and middleware management.

Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards has selected business consolidation applications by IFS, a provider of software solutions and services, states Info Tech.

IFS applications is a component-based, extended enterprise resource planning suite developed using service oriented architecture technology, and enables companies to streamline their activities in a number of core processes such as service and asset management, manufacturing, supply chain and projects.

With the new implementation, Damen Shipyards will be able to improve its software usability with the help of IFS Enterprise Explorer, an advanced interface that optimise operational productivity of the enterprises.

Sitel's latest Green VOIP processor brings industry-leading power savings to the low-end enterprise VOIP market's-Hertogenbosch, reports Tech Zone.

Sitel Semiconductor revealed its new green VOIP processor is at the heart of LG-Ericsson's recently-introduced IP8802 low-end enterprise VOIP desktop phone.

The model is the latest member of Sitel's green VOIP processor range, which delivers record low power consumption figures in typical applications, and the first to explicitly target the cost-sensitive, low-end VOIP market.