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Storage. HP’s StorageWorks offerings include entry-level, mid-range and enterprise arrays, storage
area networks, network attached storage, storage management software and virtualization technologies,
as well as tape drives, tape libraries and optical archival storage.
HP Services
HPS provides a portfolio of multi-vendor IT services, including technology services, consulting and
integration and managed services. HPS also offers a variety of services tailored to particular industries
such as manufacturing, network and service providers, financial services and the public sector, including
government and education services.
Technology Services. HPS provides a range of technology services from standalone product
support to high availability services for complex, global, networked, multi-vendor environments. This
business also manages the delivery of product warranty support through its own service organization, as
well as through authorized resellers.
Consulting and Integration. HPS provides consulting and integration services that help customers
measure, assess and maintain the link between business and IT; design and integrate the customers’
environments into a more adaptive infrastructure; and align, extend and manage applications and
business processes. Consulting and integration provides cross-industry solutions in areas such as supply
chain, business portals, messaging and security.
Managed Services. HPS offers IT management services, including comprehensive outsourcing,
transformational infrastructure services, client computing managed services, managed web services,
application services and business process outsourcing, as well as business continuity and recovery
services.
Software
Software provides management software solutions, including support, that allow enterprise
customers to manage their IT infrastructure, operations, applications, IT services and business processes
under the HP OpenView brand. In addition, this segment delivers a suite of comprehensive, carrier-
grade platforms for developing and deploying next-generation voice, data and converged services to
network and service providers under the HP OpenCall brand.
HP is focused on extending its distributed systems management leadership position into
application, service management and business process management market segments. As part of this
drive, HP has made, and continues to make, targeted software acquisitions that have integrated
technology and functionality enhancements into the HP OpenView offerings.
Personal Systems Group
PSG is one of the leading vendors of personal computers (‘‘PCs’’) in the world based on unit
volume shipped and annual revenue. PSG provides commercial PCs, consumer PCs, workstations,
handheld computing devices, digital entertainment systems, calculators and other related accessories,
software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. We group commercial desktops,
commercial notebooks and workstations into commercial clients and consumer desktop and consumer
notebooks into consumer clients when describing our performance in these markets. Like the broader
PC market, PSG continues to experience a shift toward mobile products such as notebooks. Both
commercial and consumer PCs are based predominately on the Windows operating system and use
Intel and AMD processors.
Commercial PCs. PSG offers a variety of personal computers optimized for commercial uses,
including enterprise and SMB customers, and for connectivity and manageability in networked
environments. These commercial PCs include the HP Compaq business desktops and business
notebooks, as well as the HP Compaq Tablet PCs for mobile professionals.
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