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Lucent exec wins HP CEO race

Carleton 'of the FO' Fiorina beats course favourite, HP's Ann Livermore

By Tony Smith • Get more from this author

Posted in Business, 19th July 1999 11:36 GMT

HP whitepaper - The business case for Virtualization

Hewlett-Packard today poached the president of Lucent's global service provider business, Carleton Fiorina as its new president and CEO. Fiorina beat HP insider Ann Livermore to the role recently vacated by chairman Lew Platt. Platt will retire from the chairman's post on 31 December. According to reports last month, Livermore was the hot favourite as Platt's successor, heading a shortlist of just three candidates, two of them from outside the company. ®

HP Whitepaper - The business case for Virtualization

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An improved architecture for high-efficiency, high-density data centers

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Implementing energy efficient data centers

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

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