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• 'Lightning-fast' PHP 7 speeds to beta

  PHP 7.0.0, which has been billed as a lightning-fast upgrade to the popular server-side scripting language for Web development, has proceeded to a beta stage of release.

• BaptistCare looks to future with networking rollout

  New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory aged care provider BaptistCare is rolling out networking switches and dual radio access points across three new sites to provide gigabit mobile connections for staff and residents.

• Arista has a controller now too

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2857702/ethernet-switch/cisco-lawsuits-aside-arista-forges-ahead-with-eos.html">Arista Networks</a> this week unveiled what essentially is a centralized controller for its data center and cloud switches.

• Oracle taps former HP exec Donatelli for key hardware role

  Confirming rumours dating back to as early as March, Oracle has announced it has appointed former Hewlett-Packard executive David Donatelli as executive vice president for converged infrastructure.

• HP spruiks converged data centre infrastructure

  Converged data centre infrastructure (CDI) including virtualized equipment, automation and workload optimisation will become more popular as organisations look to manage data centres more effectively according to HP.

• Dell adds Pluribus, brings Linux-based OS to its data center switches

  Dell has added <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2872683/sdn/sdn-start-up-says-it-is-best-funded-in-industry.html">Pluribus Networks</a> to its lineup of disaggregation partners.

• PHP at 20: From pet project to powerhouse

  When Rasmus Lerdorf released "a set of small tight CGI binaries written in C," he had no idea how much his creation would impact Web development. Delivering the opening keynote at this year's SunshinePHP conference in Miami, Lerdorf quipped, "In 1995, I thought I had unleashed a C API upon the Web. Obviously, that's not what happened, or we'd all be C programmers."

• HP will pay $US100 million to settle Autonomy-related lawsuit

  The ongoing saga surrounding HP's ill-fated Autonomy acquisition continued on Tuesday with the company's announcement that it will pay $US100 million in a settlement agreement with PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V.

• HP to help turn Avatar sequels into a digital attraction

  The 2009 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar created a stir with audiences and critics for its themes, storytelling and special effects. Three sequels are in the works, with the first planned for release in December 2017. But this time around, Avatar may become much more than a film.

• HP, Arista team to take on Cisco, IBM, EMC in converged infrastructure

  HP has entered into an arrangement with Arista Networks to market Arista's datacentre switches along with HP converged IT infrastructure products.

• HP unveils new minimalist logo as it prepares to split

  Hewlett-Packard, the last of the large monolithic IT enterprise firms for everything from supercomputers to Unix and tablets, was put to rest this week.

• Microsoft teases HP, Dell, Toshiba notebooks and tablets running Windows 10

  Microsoft has given visitors to Computex 2015 a sneak peek at several new devices that will launch with Windows 10, highlighting the capabilities of the new OS.

• HP buying SDN company for NFV

  HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2184029/data-center/sdn-company-helps-build-clouds.html?nsdr=true">ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers</a>.

• Is Apple planning a 3D printer?

  LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- Speaking here today about the tremendous growth of the 3D printing industry, analyst Terry Wohlers slipped one name into a list of potential machine makers that took some by surprise: Apple.

• Status check on OpenStack: The open source Cloud has arrived

  Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source code.