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opportunities, from servicing new segments and buying behaviors to inventing new consumption models and creating new revenue streams. EG technology
delivers customer outcomes through its innovative, industry leading portfolio across servers, storage, networking, management software, converged
infrastructure solutions, and technology services. In today's rapidly changing technology landscape, customers face twin challenges when it comes to their
infrastructure foundation: they must optimize their "traditional IT" to support existing applications, and they must simultaneously invest in "cloud-first,
mobile-first" infrastructure that will support the next generation of applications, web services and user experiences. The EG portfolio delivers products and
services across servers, storage and networking to reduce cost and continue high performance operations for traditional IT loads. For tomorrow's cloud-first,
mobile first workloads, the EG portfolio provides products and services across converged solutions engineered for the world's most important workloads in
cloud, mobility, infrastructure-as-a-service, and big data; HP OneView as the industry's only unified display software-defined infrastructure management
solution; HP Helion cloud portfolio delivering a broad offering of hybrid cloud solutions, cloud services and cloud software; and technology services to
advise customers on the right path to transforming their enterprises for tomorrow's digital era.
 ISS 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 Corporation ("Microsoft") and VMware, Inc. ("VMware"), and open source
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, solutions for large, distributed computing companies who buy and deploy nodes at
a massive scale. ISS also offers HP Moonshot servers operating on ARM, AMD and Intel Atom-based processors which offer reduced cost, space, energy and
complexity compared to traditional servers.
 Business Critical Systems delivers our mission-critical systems through 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 and mission-critical x86 ProLiant servers.
 Our storage offerings include platforms for enterprise and SMB environments. Our flagship product is the 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 StoreServ, StoreOnce and StoreVirtual products. These offerings enable customers
to optimize their existing storage systems, build new virtualization solutions and facilitate their transition to cloud computing.
 Our networking offerings include switches, routers, wireless local area network ("WLAN") and network management products that deliver
open, scalable, secure, agile and consistent solutions that span the data center, campus and branch environments and deliver software-defined networking and
unified communications capabilities. Our unified wired and wireless networking offerings include WLAN access points, controllers and switches. Our
networking solutions are based on our FlexNetwork architecture, which is designed to enable simplified server virtualization, unified communications and
business 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 provides Support and Consulting services. Support services offerings span various levels of 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, comprehensive, flexible end-to-end support that
enables customers to build, operate or consume IT in private or hybrid cloud environments; and Lifecycle Event services, which are event
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