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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
Note 2: Segment Information (Continued)
•Commercial PCs are optimized for use by customers, including enterprise and SMB customers,
and for connectivity, reliability and manageability in networked environments.
•Consumer PCs include the HP Spectre, HP ENVY, HP Pavilion, HP Chromebook, HP Split and
HP Slate series of multi-media consumer notebooks, consumer tablets, hybrids and desktops.
Printing provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, software and
services, as well as scanning devices. Printing is also focused on imaging solutions in the commercial
markets. HP groups LaserJet, large format printers and commercial inkjet printers into commercial
hardware and consumer inkjet printers into consumer hardware when describing performance in these
markets. Described below are HP’s global business capabilities within Printing.
•LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions deliver HP’s LaserJet and enterprise products, services and
solutions to the SMB and enterprise segments. Managed Print Services provides printing
equipment, supplies, support, workflow optimization and security services for SMB and
enterprise customers around the world, utilizing proprietary HP tools and fleet management
solutions as well as third-party software.
•Inkjet and Printing Solutions deliver HP’s consumer and SMB inkjet solutions (hardware,
supplies, media, and web-connected hardware and services). Ongoing initiatives and programs
such as Ink in the Office and Ink Advantage and newer initiatives such as Instant Ink provide
innovative printing solutions to consumers and SMBs.
•Graphics Solutions delivers large format printers (Designjet, Large Format Production, and
Scitex Industrial), specialty printing, digital press solutions (Indigo and Inkjet Webpress),
supplies and services to print service providers and design & rendering customers.
•Software and Web Services delivers a suite of offerings, including photo-storage and printing
offerings (such as Snapfish), document storage, entertainment services, web-connected printing,
and PC back-up and related services.
The Enterprise Group provides servers, storage, networking and technology services that, when
combined with HP’s Cloud solutions, enable customers to manage applications across public cloud,
virtual private cloud, private cloud and traditional IT environments. Described below are HP’s business
units and capabilities within EG.
•Industry Standard Servers offers a range of products from entry-level servers through premium
ProLiant servers, which run primarily Windows, Linux and virtualization platforms from software
providers such as Microsoft and VMware and open sourced software from other major vendors
while leveraging x86 processors from Intel and AMD.
•Business Critical Systems offers HP Integrity servers based on the Intel↧ Itanium↧processor, HP
Integrity NonStop solutions and mission-critical x86 ProLiant servers.
•Storage offers traditional storage and Converged Storage solutions. Traditional storage includes
tape, storage networking and legacy external disk products such as EVA and XP. Converged
Storage solutions include 3PAR StoreServ, StoreOnce and StoreVirtual products.
•Networking offers switches, routers, wireless local area network and network management
products that span the data center, campus and branch environments and deliver software-
defined networking and unified communications capabilities.
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