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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
Note 19: Segment Information (Continued)
offerings include entry-level, mid-range and high-end arrays, storage area networks (‘‘SANs’’),
network attached storage (‘‘NAS’’), storage management software, and virtualization
technologies, as well as tape drives, tape libraries and optical archival storage.
•HP Software provides enterprise IT management software solutions, including professional
services and support, that allow customers to manage and automate their IT infrastructure,
operations, applications, IT services and business processes under the HP Business Technology
Optimization (‘‘BTO’’) brand. The portfolio of BTO solutions also includes tools to automate
data center operations and IT processes. These solutions are reported as BTO Software. HP
Software also provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables communication service
providers to deploy revenue generating infrastructure and applications, customer intelligence and
billing systems, and operational support systems. In addition, for media companies and
distributors, HP Software provides solutions that address content management and streamlining
of digital media workflows. HP Software further provides information management and business
intelligence solutions, which include enterprise data warehousing, business continuity, data
availability, records management, compliance and e-discovery products and services that enable
our customers to extract more value from their structured and unstructured data and
information. These solutions are reported as Other Software.
HP’s other business segments are described below.
•Personal Systems Group provides commercial PCs, consumer PCs, workstations, handheld
computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, software and services for the
commercial and consumer markets. Commercial PCs are optimized for commercial uses,
including enterprise and SMB customers, and for connectivity and manageability in networked
environments. Commercial PCs include the HP Compaq business desktops and notebooks, HP
EliteBook Tablet Pcs, the HP EliteBook and ProBook lines of professional notebooks, as well as
the HP Mini-Note PC, HP Blade PCs, Retail POS systems, and HP Thin Clients. Consumer PCs
are targeted at the home user and include the HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario series of multi
media consumer desktops and notebooks, as well as the HP Pavilion Elite desktops, HP Envy
Premium notebooks, Touchsmart PCs, HP and Compaq Mini notebooks, Voodoo Gaming PCs
and the Media Smart Home Server. HP’s Z series desktop workstations and HP Elitebook
Mobile Workstations provide advanced graphics, computing, and large modeling capabilities,
certified with applications in a wide range of industries and running both Windows↧ and Linux
operating systems. PSG provides a series of HP iPAQ Pocket PC handheld computing devices
that run on Windows↧ Mobile software. These products range from basic PDAs to advanced
devices with voice and data capability.
•Imaging and Printing Group provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing
supplies, printing media and scanning devices. IPG is also focused on imaging solutions in the
commercial markets, from managed print services solutions to addressing new growth
opportunities in commercial printing and capturing high-value pages in areas such as industrial
applications, outdoor signage, and the graphic arts business. Inkjet and Web Solutions delivers
(1) Windows↧ is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
(2) Itanium↧ is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
(3) UNIX↧ is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
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