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This morning, during a press briefing, HP France delivered its balance sheet figures of the year just ended and posting trends and predictions for 2013 ...
Hewlett-Packard is a group that displays an iron if you believe the comments made during the press conference this morning. This is a turnover of nearly $ 121 billion and more than 11 CASH billion, despite the repurchase of debt of $ 6 billion made in 2012. But it is also a giant computer that fires. The latest plans were announced nearly 29,000 state employees affected worldwide.
In France, its CEO, Gerald Karsenti, negotiated with representatives of the staff and management World minimize a social plan. There is little he announced a plan for voluntary departure and early retirement of 520 employees, but eventually, after correction, it will be "only" 300 HP France employees who will be affected. Given the HP G42 Battery economic and Meg Whitman plans, this plan will run until the end of 2014. This allows time for HP France to set up another plan for the use of employment within its structure, according to its CEO.
Indeed, if departures are announced, are also hiring to fill the gaps in different services. Gerald Karsenti has also relied on a specific point. He does not want discontinuity of service in HP France, including the service division of the group. To do this, set up a rotation program with partners of the company to train employees of HP and partners on new activities, which is also the university via HP with 3000 man / days dedicated to internal training and research.
Two HP PC sold per second worldwide

Research and innovation are the watchwords of 2013 HP. Whether at the technology or the internal organization and social HP G4 Battery wishes to confirm its leading position in the PC market, printing, as well as server, network and cloud. The year 2012 was full of product announcements by the Director of the Division PPS (Personal Printing & Systems), Pascale Dumas. It is no less than 87 new products across all sectors from this new division were indeed launched. This allows HP to account for 25% market share in the PC segment and 33% on printers. If there was a time when the U.S. wanted to separate its PC division, it is no longer the case today.
Via the new PPS division which includes printing and HP G6 Battery PC products under the same management, HP feels more responsive and can then provide more relevant products to its customers, whether public or professional. Moreover, G¨¦rald Karsenti also indicates that the SME / SMI is essential for HP France. Within two weeks, we should see this as the shops ElitePad 900, the tablet HP Professional. With 10 hours and 10 overtime via the dock, the tablet has been designed primarily for professionals with the support of latest security technologies vital to businesses. With this tablet, SMEs / SMIs can enjoy a reactive machine and versatile for a lower budget than standard PCs. Pascale Dumas adds that growth in this market segment will be three times larger than the segment of consumer tablets for 2013.
Moonshot and Memristors, revolutions to come ...

It's time for Jean-Paul Alibert, vice president, Innovation introduce the next evolution of HP G7 Battery products, particularly in the field of research and technology. HP's vision for the coming years is: "Electrons in the calculation, to communicate Photons, Ions in store, all in a Datacenter energy-neutral."
In 2013, we should actually see the commercial release of the solution that centralizes Moonshot 1000 servers in a single rack. What focus maximum computing power per square meter. Then it was the turn of photonic solutions to make their appearance in Datacenters with maps fibered for communication between Dell Latitude E5520 machines. The storage part will not be spared either since the Memristor will soon be in landfills, at least in the near future, without elaborating on a date. HP announced still that this technology is in the process of industrialization and will store no less than 1 petabit per cm3, while being as fast as the current memory.
Windows 8 does not have an impact ...

For HP, the sale of PC has not really suffered from the launch of the new Microsoft OS. There was indeed a lack of supply from machines with no tactile interfaces. But it should repair itself in the coming weeks. CEO of HP France says elsewhere: "Windows 8 will be put in the long run we made it ... ".
It is unclear, however, whether using a computer with a touchscreen interface or not. After this little escapade, the HP group believes that the year 2013 will be placed under the sign of the growth with an increase of nearly 4% on the number of units sold Latitude E6320 PC in the world. See you next year to see if all this check ...
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