Hewlett Packard finds successor for Platt

Carly Fiorina, former president of Lucent technologies' global service provider business, has been appointed as the chief executive of Hewlett Packard. Fiorina, will succeed Lew Platt, who retires at the end of the year. Meanwhile, HP has changed the name of its high-end data storage product, following the threat of legal action from rival EMC. The Surestore E Disk Array MC256 will now be called the XP256.