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technology infrastructure that supports their current business and consumer demands and next
generation applications and web services. HP’s Converged Systems portfolio simplifies IT through quick
deployment, intuitive management and system-level support. Optimized for key workloads such as
virtualization, cloud and big data, these complete, integrated solutions enable organizations of all sizes
to efficiently utilize IT staffing resources and deploy applications faster.
Industry Standard Servers. Industry Standard Servers offers entry-level through premium ProLiant
servers, which run primarily Windows, Linux and virtualization platforms from software providers, such
as Microsoft Corporation (‘‘Microsoft’’) and VMware, Inc. (‘‘VMware’’), and open sourced software
from other major vendors while leveraging x86 processors from Intel and AMD. The business spans a
range of server product lines, including microservers, towers, traditional rack, density-optimized rack
and blades, as well as hyperscale solutions for large, distributed computing companies who buy and
deploy nodes at a massive scale. In fiscal 2013, we launched our HP Moonshot servers that operate on
ARM-based and Intel Atom-based processors and offer reduced cost, space, energy and complexity
compared to some traditional servers.
Business Critical Systems. Business Critical Systems delivers our mission-critical systems 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 mission critical x86 ProLiant
servers for scalability of systems that have more than four industry standard processors.
Storage. Our storage offerings include storage platforms for enterprise and SMB environments.
Our flagship product is the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Platform, which is designed for virtualization,
cloud and IT-as-a-service. Traditional Storage solutions include tape, storage networking and legacy
external disk products such as EVA and XP. Converged Storage solutions include 3PAR, StoreOnce,
StoreVirtual and StoreAll products. 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 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-defined
networking provides an end-to-end solution to automate the network from data center to campus and
branch.
Technology Services. Technology Services provides professional and support services and
technology consulting. Support services offerings span various customer support needs and include: HP
Foundation Care, our portfolio of reactive hardware and software support services; HP Proactive Care,
which combines remote support technology for real-time monitoring with rapid access to our technical
experts; HP Datacenter Care, a comprehensive and flexible end-to-end support for HP and
multi-vendor systems that enables customers to build, operate or consume IT in traditional, cloud or
hybrid cloud environments; and Lifecycle Event services, which are event-based services offering our
technology expertise and consulting for each phase of the technology life cycle. Our technology services
offerings are available in the form of service contracts, pre-packaged offerings (HP Care Pack services)
or on a customized basis. The technology consulting portfolio includes cloud, big data and mobility
consulting services, and provides IT organizations with advice, design, implementation, migration and
optimization of our EG platforms: servers, storage, networking and converged infrastructure.
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