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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
Note 19: Segment Information (Continued)
•Imaging and Printing Group provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies,
media and scanning devices. IPG is also focused on imaging solutions in the commercial
markets. These solutions range from managed print services and capturing high-value pages in
areas such as industrial applications, outdoor signage, and the graphic arts business. Inkjet and
Web Solutions delivers HP’s consumer and SMB inkjet solutions (hardware, supplies, media,
web-connected hardware and services) and develops HP’s retail publishing and web businesses.
It includes single function and all-in-one inkjet printers targeted toward consumers and SMBs, as
well as retail publishing solutions, Snapfish and ePrintCenter. LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions
delivers products, services and solutions to the medium-sized business and enterprise segments,
including LaserJet printers and supplies, multi-function devices, scanners, web-connected
hardware and services and enterprise software solutions, such as Exstream Software and Web
Jetadmin. Managed Enterprise Solutions include managed print service products and solutions
delivered to enterprise customers partnering with third-party software providers to offer
workflow solutions in the enterprise environment. Graphics solutions include large format
printing (Designjet and Scitex), large format supplies, WebPress supplies, Indigo printing,
specialty printing systems and inkjet high-speed production solutions. HP’s printer supplies
offerings include LaserJet toner and inkjet printer cartridges, graphic solutions ink products and
other printing-related media.
•Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking provides server, storage, networking and, when
combined with HP Software’s Cloud Service Automation software suite, HP’s CloudSystem. The
CloudSystem enables infrastructure, platform and software-as-a-service in private, public or
hybrid environments. Industry Standard Servers offers primarily entry-level and mid-range
ProLiant servers, which run primarily Windows, Linux and Novell operating systems and leverage
Intel and AMD processors. The business spans a range of product lines, including pedestal-tower
servers, density-optimized rack servers and HP’s BladeSystem family of server blades. Business
Critical Systems offers HP Integrity servers based on the Intel Itanium-based processor as well
as HP Integrity NonStop solutions. Business Critical Systems also offers scale-up x86 ProLiant
Servers for scalability of systems with more than four industry standard processors. HP’s Storage
business offers a broad range of products including storage area networks, network attached
storage, storage management software and virtualization technologies, StoreOnce data
deduplication solutions, tape drives and tape libraries. HP’s networking offerings include switch,
router, wireless LAN and TippingPoint network security products.
•HP Software provides enterprise IT management software, information management solutions,
and security intelligence/risk management solutions. Solutions are delivered in the form of
traditional software licenses or as software-as-a-service. Augmented by support and professional
services, HP Software solutions allow large IT organizations to manage infrastructure,
operations, application life cycles, application quality and security, IT services, business
processes, and structured and unstructured data. In addition, these solutions help businesses
proactively safeguard digital assets, comply with corporate and regulatory policies, and control
internal and external security risks.
•HP Financial Services supports and enhances HP’s global product and services solutions,
providing a broad range of value-added financial life cycle management services. HPFS enables
HP’s worldwide customers to acquire complete IT solutions, including hardware, software and
services. HPFS offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services, as well as
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