Unified communications provider Polycom has appointed Ari Bose as its senior vice president and chief information officer.

HP has agreed to acquire security and compliance management provider ArcSight.

Following its acquisition of 3Com in April HP has revamped its networking product line and, in Australia, has announced new appointments as it merges the former 3Com enterprise networking business and channel programmes.

HP's TippingPoint operation will publicly disclose security vulnerabilities six months after they are reported.

Application services and insurance automation software company Axe Group has appointed Carolyn Henley as its marketing director.

HP says it will invest $US1 billion transforming its Enterprise Services business, shedding 9000 staff in the process.

HP has opened its first internal data centre that is "Cisco-free" thanks to products from newly acquired 3Com and it says it plans to remove Cisco gear from all six of its major data centres within a year.

Following completion of its acquisition of 3Com HP has detailed an integrated portfolio of enterprise networking products that it says "delivers a superior alternative to the marketplace in terms of technology, energy efficiency and total cost of ownership."

HP has completed its $US2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com.

HP intends to challenge Cisco in the global networking market by leveraging 3Com subsidiary H3C's dominance of the Chinese networking market and 3Com's existing "China Out" strategy designed to capitalise on its strength in China.