PALO ALTO, Calif. - 5 Dec 2007: HP today announced a broad portfolio of “Microsoft-ready” hardware, software, services and solutions to help ensure customers experience a seamless transition to the upcoming Microsoft Windows® Server 2008.

HP technologies, when used in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Server 2008, can help businesses achieve more control, greater flexibility and increased protection of their IT investments.

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BARCELONA, Nov. 26, 2007: HP today announced new software and services to help businesses transform IT operations and automate the full lifecycle of managing business services.

The company introduced HP Automated Operations 1.0, an integrated set of products that automates IT operations across all technology and organizational domains. This eliminates labor-intensive, ad hoc and error-prone manual processes and, in turn, helps IT organizations dramatically lower the day-to-day cost of operations.

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RENO, Nev. - 12 November 2007: HP today announced that it placed two systems in the top five of the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world’s 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems.

In addition, HP secured one-third of the implementations on the list to maintain its ranking as a leading provider of supercomputing systems.

The HP-based Computational Research Laboratories system was the largest Asia Pacific-based system on the TOP500 and No. 4 worldwide. An HP-based system for a Swedish government agency was the fifth largest worldwide.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 30, 2007: HP today announced an expanded portfolio of offerings that help enterprise customers modernize and manage their SAP® application environments.

The latest services from HP help customers consolidate, migrate and optimize their SAP application infrastructure; upgrade to the latest version of SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning); and, establish a roadmap that leverages enterprise SOA (service-oriented architecture) to innovate future business processes.

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FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 29, 2007: HP today introduced a centralized, hardened security appliance to help data center managers improve privacy compliance and reduce the risk of costly data-loss due to theft.

The HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager consolidates key management for encryption devices deployed in enterprise and mid-sized businesses. Security is improved by providing a single control point across the data center.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2007: HP today announced that Rabobank, a full-range financial services provider, has selected a business intelligence solution from HP in a deal valued at $4.3 million.

Netherlands-based Rabobank, which serves more than 9 million individuals and corporate clients in 38 countries, selected a solution based on HP Neoview, a next-generation data warehousing platform, as well as HP Services. The solution, having already demonstrated improvements in performance and cost, is expected to accelerate Rabobank’s business growth.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2007: HP today announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will use its technology to build one of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems designed to accelerate research in the environmental molecular sciences.

The new system will provide the computing engine to advance research in support of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) mission in the fields of energy, the environment and national security. PNNL is one of the DOE’s 10 national laboratories managed by its Office of Science.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 25, 2007: ProCurve Networking by HP today announced the first industry implementation of sFlow technology for wireless network access, a move designed to provide customers with increased visibility into wireless network traffic.

sFlow boosts insight into network traffic both in wired and wireless environments, and it scales to large network deployments, allowing customers to quickly respond to security threats.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2007: Targeted at enterprise customers, the ProCurve Switch 8212zl completes ProCurve’s core-to-edge network solution that unifies network technology, infrastructure, software, operation, management and support while reducing complexity and lowering costs. The switch is based on HP-developed ProVision ASIC technology.

Also announced today, the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl Module adds centralized wireless local area network (WLAN) configuration, management and advanced wireless services to the 8212zl core switch and 5400zl edge switch family.

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ARMONK, NY - 31 Aug 2007: IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) new POWER6 processor-based UNIX server has posted world records in key metrics of computing performance vital to a broad range of technical and commercial applications. These leadership results were obtained on 1-core, 4-core, 8-core, and 16-core servers running either Linux or the IBM UNIX operating system, AIX, allowing customers substantial flexibility.

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