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Application and Business Services. Application and Business Services helps clients develop,
revitalize and manage their applications and information assets. This full application life cycle approach
encompasses application development, testing, modernization, system integration, maintenance and
management for both packaged and custom-built applications. The Application and Business Services
portfolio also includes intellectual property-based industry solutions, services and technologies to help
clients better manage critical business processes. We also offer services for customer relationship
management, finance and administration, human resources, payroll and document processing.
Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking
ESSN provides server, storage and networking products that fulfill a wide range of customer needs
and market requirements. Our Converged Infrastructure portfolio of servers, storage and networking
combined with our Cloud Service Automation software suite creates the HP CloudSystem. This
integrated solution enables enterprise and service-provider clients to deliver infrastructure, platform and
software-as-a-service in a private, public or hybrid cloud environment. By providing a broad portfolio of
server, storage and networking solutions, ESSN aims to optimize the combined product solutions
required by different customers and provide solutions for a wide range of operating environments,
spanning both the enterprise and the SMB markets.
Industry Standard Servers. Industry Standard Servers offers primarily entry-level and mid-range
ProLiant servers, which run primarily Windows, Linux and virtualization platforms from Microsoft,
VMware, Inc. and other major vendors and leverage Intel and AMD x86 processors. The business
spans a range of product lines that include pedestal-tower servers, density-optimized rack servers and
our BladeSystem family of server blades. Industry Standard Servers also provides hyperscale solutions
for large distributed computing companies who buy and deploy compute nodes at a massive scale.
Business Critical Systems. Business Critical Systems delivers our mission-critical Converged
Infrastructure with a portfolio of HP Integrity servers based on the Intel Itanium processor that run the
HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems, as well as HP Integrity NonStop solutions. Our Integrity
servers feature scalable blades built on a blade infrastructure with our unique Blade Link technology
and the Superdome 2 server solution. Business Critical Systems also offers our scale-up x86 ProLiant
servers for scalability of systems with more than four industry standard processors. In addition, we
continue to support the HP9000 servers and HP AlphaServers by offering customers the opportunity to
upgrade these legacy systems to current HP Integrity systems.
Storage. Our storage offerings include storage platforms for high-end, mid-range and small
business environments. Our flagship product is the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Platform, which is
designed for virtualization, cloud and IT-as-a-service. The Storage business has 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.
These offerings enable customers to optimize their existing storage systems, build new virtualization
solutions and plan their transition to cloud computing.
Networking. Our switch, router and wireless LAN products deliver open, scalable, secure, agile
and consistent solutions for the data center, campus and branch networks. Our networking solutions
are based on our FlexNetwork architecture, which is designed to enable simplified server virtualization,
unified communications and multi-media application delivery for the enterprise.
Software
Software provides enterprise information management solutions for both structured and
unstructured data, IT management software, and security intelligence/risk management solutions.
Solutions are delivered in the form of traditional software licenses, software-as-a-service, hybrid or
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