The Hard Choices Ahead for H.P.

The following is an excerpt from an article in 

The New York Times
Monday, August 27, 2012

The Hard Choices Ahead for H.P.

By QUENTIN HARDY

How soon before the next big, tough decision at Hewlett-Packard? It could be as early as October.

On Oct. 3, H.P. will hold its industry analyst day in San Francisco, when it is expected to spell out growth projections for the coming fiscal year, which begins Nov. 1. If those numbers are too low, or if Wall Street finds them improbably high, the stock is likely to fall.

That could create renewed pressure on Meg Whitman, H.P.'s chief executive, to do something radical. This is likely to mean further layoffs, another big write down or even a sell off of some of H.P.'s largest pieces.

Those are all radical moves, but the eroding value of H.P. makes the need for remedies hard to overstate. Between Tuesday morning and the close of trading on Thursday, H.P. lost some $4.8 billion in market capitalization, which in its current state was about 12 percent of H.P.'s total value. Since February, the company's stock market value has fallen 41 percent.

The current stock price of H.P. "indicates a company that is bankrupt in six years," said Amit Daryanani of RBC Capital Markets. While he did not think that projection is really prophetic, he thinks a breakup will at some point become possible. "A couple more quarters like Wednesday, and you have to ask if it's better to split up the company so some of the smaller companies can prosper."

Much of H.P.'s problem is a legacy of past successes, mixed with bad acquisitions. It is so big in things like personal computers, servers, and printers that little else matters. Those are growing slowly, if at all; on Thursday, the International Data Corporation projected worldwide demand for PCs would rise just 0.9 percent this year. Part of the reason, IDC said, is that many buyers are waiting for Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, which is expected in the fourth quarter.

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Press Release : March 26, 2012

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HP Helps U.S. Storage Partners Expand Revenue Opportunities, Profitability with "100 Percent" Channel Initiatives

Topics:Technology and Innovation

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP today announced two new sales initiatives that stimulate growth and expand revenue opportunities for U.S. channel partners. The new initiatives include:

• The 100 Percent New Accounts Initiativedrives incremental revenue and a new level of predictability for HP Storage partners by funneling all sales of HP Storage products to new U.S. accounts through channel partners.⁽¹⁾
• The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative accelerates growth for HP partners by funneling all high-profit HP LeftHand Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup orders generated by new storage accounts or repeat customers in the United States through an authorized HP Storage partner.⁽¹⁾

“The storage market continues to rapidly grow as businesses create and manage more and more information every day,” said Matt Troka, senior vice president of Product and Partner Management at CDW, an HP channel partner. “By pushing all new storage business to partners, HP has demonstrated its commitment to CDW’s success and, at the same time, is building additional trust and goodwill with the channel.”

Under the terms and conditions of the 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative, new registered sales opportunities of HP Storage products will be fulfilled by, and remain in, the channel. This includes high-growth HP Converged Storage products, HP 3PAR Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup, HP LeftHand Storage, HP IBRIX Storage, HP X5000 Storage and the rest of the HP Storage portfolio.

The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative includes commercial emerging-growth accounts, as well as state, local and education deals.

Both initiatives drive increased sales engagement for HP Storage partners with the HP direct sales force. Whether a sales lead is identified by HP or a partner, HP will always funnel these new business and up-sell opportunities through U.S. channel partners.

More customers, more deals, more margin
The new channel partner initiatives complement the recently announced HP ServiceONE Partner Support for Storage program, which enables qualified partners to pursue new business opportunities by combining HP and partner-branded services to bolster portfolios.

With access to sales, deployment and maintenance opportunities, partners have the potential to compete for and win significant customer deals, as well as increase profit margins.

“With these new programs, HP is driving more storage sales opportunities and profitable growth potential to reseller partners than any other vendor,” said Chris Riley, vice president, Americas, Storage, HP. “HP is helping partners increase revenue with HP 3PAR, HP StoreOnce and HP LeftHand products by bringing them more opportunities than ever before.”

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

About HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

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(1) Any end-user account that HP has not sold storage to in the last three years. Deals registration is required to drive alignment. This strategic policy change becomes effective immediately for all new opportunities, whether identified by HP or by the channel partner. Implicit in this policy is the assurance that every registered Storage New Business Opportunity (NBO) is now guaranteed to stay in the channel. Outside of HP Global Accounts, opportunities where storage cannot be unbundled from the overall HP Solution, or select opportunities where HP is contractually obligated to fulfill direct, such as the public sector.

Press Release : March 26, 2012

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HP Eases Unified Communications Deployment for Enterprises

Topics:Strategic Focus: Connectivity, Converged Infrastructure

ORLANDO, Fla. -- HP today announced two new offerings that facilitate the rapid adoption of unified communications (UC) solutions, helping clients more quickly realize enhanced productivity and improved responsiveness to customers through UC.

The new offerings include HP AppSystem for Microsoft® Lync, a turnkey platform designed to expedite UC deployments, and a customizable HP and Polycom® Rich Media Communications (RMC) solution for greater visual collaboration.

To meet the growing demand for immediate, reliable access to resources and information, HP recognizes that organizations need unified mobile and virtual workplace solutions that enable employees to efficiently communicate.

To help organizations quickly embrace UC, HP is enabling clients to quickly and cost-effectively deploy Polycom RealPresence® video solutions and Microsoft Lync, a UC solution that offers audio, video, web and instant messaging capabilities.  

Simplifying UC integration for faster results
HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync is an integrated UC platform built on HP Converged Infrastructure. The solution is preconfigured for rapid deployment of Microsoft Lync, allowing clients to quickly realize greater collaboration between employees, partners and customers. The offering also includes assessment, deployment and support services to help ensure the platform is quickly up and running.

This integrated, scalable solution is designed to reduce implementation time and costs by offering extensive testing that ensures multivendor interoperability. Combined with HP services expertise, HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync enables clients to achieve faster time to value, as well as:

• Achieve enhanced collaboration with the Polycom RealPresence video solutions and Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server to provide presence-based virtual meeting rooms.
• Reduce costs with comprehensive public switched telephone network connectivity options, eliminating the need for costly rate interfaces. Options include state-of-the-art SIP Trunks from solutions provider ACME Packet, which allow external communication via IP, as well as an Audiocodes Mediant gateway that offers time-division multiplexing connectivity with a client's existing legacy infrastructure.

Top-line support streamlines UC adoption
To help clients rapidly respond to changing market demands and improve the user experience, HP offers a portfolio of support and consulting services.  These services help enable clients to rapidly deploy UC solutions, as well as optimize and secure their network. HP expertise aligns IT with business or government goals to create a clear transformation path for clients while ensuring pervasive user adoption through comprehensive training.

“Unified communications is an attractive option to help increase collaboration and productivity, but not all companies have the IT support to manage deployment and integration with their present IT environments,” said Giovanni Mezgec, general manager, Lync, Microsoft Corp. “HP’s solution helps to support these organizations.”

Amplifying existing UC solutions with video collaboration
The HP and Polycom RMC solution combines HP Networking products based on the HP FlexNetwork architecture with Polycom RealPresence video solutions built on the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which provides comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration. Clients can easily prepare and install network video capabilities from desktop to conference room and immersive suites.

HP and Polycom RMC is an open standards based, interoperable and extensible offering that enables easy integration into an organization’s existing multivendor environment. In addition, it has built-in multilayer security to protect users’ video streams and applications.  

“Like any corporate, international organization, we can become more efficient in terms of time and travel costs if we use videoconferencing and improve communication technology,” said Steve Grive, director, Information Communications Technology, University of the West of England. “HP consultants are helping us to achieve that.”

Availability

• HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync will be available in select countries in May.
• The HP and Polycom Rich Media Communications solution is available worldwide through HP Technology Services and HP and Polycom channel partners.
• HP integration, deployment and support services are available globally.

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas. 

About HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Sabre Holdings Selects HP for Infrastructure & Applications Services Agreement

Press Release : March 22, 2012

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Sabre Holdings Selects HP for $800 Million Infrastructure and Applications Services Agreement

HP to enhance Sabre’s technology infrastructure to lower costs, improve time to market

Topics:Technology and Innovation

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP Enterprise Services today announced an $800 million, six-year services agreement with Sabre Holdings to enhance Sabre's technology infrastructure by implementing HP's networking and flexible storage solutions.

To enable Sabre to continue providing innovative products for the travel industry, HP will upgrade Sabre’s network and storage infrastructure to improve its agility and resiliency while helping drive down costs.

“The travel industry is highly competitive, demanding that we develop and deliver innovative products for our customers quickly while keeping costs down,” said Barry Vandevier, chief information officer, Sabre Holdings. “In the past decade, HP has delivered a combination of hardware, software and services to create the reliable infrastructure we need to stay ahead of the competition.”

HP will upgrade Sabre’s core mainframe platform and also migrate the majority of Sabre’s data center network and storage to HP hardware solutions, including HP 3PAR and HP networking. As an extension of the companies’ 11-year relationship, HP will continue to provide core infrastructure services, including the hosting of Sabre’s customer-facing systems and support of its end-user environments, including network, print and desktop technologies.

The agreement also includes services for the company’s LAN/WAN environment and for Sabre’s desktop and notebook PCs, handheld devices, printers and servers.

HP will continue providing Applications Management Services for Sabre’s internal applications that support its business. The management of Sabre’s applications environment will help the company operate efficiently while enabling it to continue innovating for its customers.

HP will support Sabre’s locations around the world from global delivery centers. HP’s model blends the power of its technology portfolio with global delivery expertise to give clients greater flexibility and cost efficiency while minimizing risks.

“Diverse travel technology companies have a need for flexible infrastructures so they can take advantage of growth opportunities,” said Mike Klaus, vice president and general manager, Consumer and Transportation Industries, HP Enterprise Services. “HP is best positioned to create an operationally sound infrastructure with improved service levels that will help Sabre remain focused on delivering quality products and services to the travel industry.”

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

About Sabre
Sabre Holdings is a global travel technology company, serving the world’s largest industry – travel and tourism. Sabre provides software to travel agencies, corporations, travelers, airlines, hotels, car, rail, cruise and tour operator companies through its four businesses: Sabre Airline Solutions, Sabre Hospitality Solutions, Sabre Travel Network and Travelocity (including lastminute.com and Zuji).

Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, Sabre has approximately 10,000 employees in 60 countries around the world. It has large development and customer care centers in the United States, Argentina, India, Philippines, Poland and Uruguay. Sabre has won numerous awards for being a top employer and corporate citizen in Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Peru, Poland and the United States. Sabre is privately owned by Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Silver Lake Partners.

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Press Release : March 22, 2012

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Turkcell to Become "One-stop Shop" for Cloud Services with HP CloudSystem

Turkey-based telecom company offers customized cloud service bundles to simplify procurement and usage for enterprise customers

Topics:translate:Strategic Focus: Cloud, Converged Infrastructure

ISTANBUL, -- HP today announced that Turkcell is using HP cloud solutions to generate new revenue through “as a service” offerings to businesses.

Turkcell, with 34.5 million customers, is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey.

Turkcell is using HP CloudSystem Service Provider to provide its business customers with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and communications as a service (CaaS). The new offerings are presented to customers in a customized, online marketplace.

With IaaS and CaaS, Turkcell business customers can take advantage of utility pricing and the flexibility of an on-demand services model. Benefits include more predictable operating costs, low capital investment and minimal risk in new technology adoption.

Specific services, such as email, can be easily enabled within HP CloudSystem Service Provider, allowing Turkcell to quickly enter a growing market with business-ready offerings and to achieve an advantage over would-be competitors.

A single software platform that can aggregate numerous as-a-service offerings, the HP solution gives Turkcell the flexibility to adapt quickly to market changes and customer needs. Turkcell can easily add new offerings as well as create customized cloud service bundles that simplify procurement and usage for enterprise customers.

“Turkcell intends to be the ‘one-stop shop’ for cloud-based services for businesses in Turkey,” said Ilker Kuruoz, chief information and communication technologies officer, Turkcell. “HP cloud technologies and expertise are providing Turkcell the ability to enter this market quickly, and the flexibility to deliver cloud services that are tailored for each customer.”

“To compete with rivals, communications service providers must use new technologies like cloud to build new businesses,” said David Sliter, vice president and general manager, Communications, Media and Entertainment Solutions, HP Enterprise Services. “HP CloudSystem Service Provider enables Turkcell to expand its enterprise business with as-a-service offerings that help its customers operate more efficiently.”

HP provides Turkcell with complete solution
HP CloudSystem Service Provider is a comprehensive solution that includes hardware, software and services, all integrated to streamline the on-boarding and operation of IaaS and software as a service (SaaS), including CaaS, business applications, device management and security.

Turkcell is using the key components of HP CloudSystem Service Provider:

• HP Converged Infrastructure provides an integrated platform designed to enable the rapid, efficient delivery of IaaS.
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• HP Aggregation Platform for SaaS (AP4SaaS) provides a common foundation for multiple as-a-service offerings. It integrates and automates important service management processes such as provisioning, activation, reporting, service usage and revenue settlement.
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• HP Cloud Service Automation provides advanced provisioning and management of applications and infrastructure using industry-best practice templates, linking HP AP4SaaS with HP Converged Infrastructure.

Consulting and integration services for design, implementation and project management, as well as support and management.

Turkcell launches IaaS and CaaS business
At a news conference today, Turkcell described its as-a-service offerings:

• IaaS: Turkcell will provide businesses with on-demand access to state-of-the-art IT technologies for servers, storage and networking. Businesses can rely solely on IaaS from Turkcell, or use IaaS to augment on-premise IT resources for peak loads or activity bursts.
  
  The IT infrastructure for the cloud services is hosted within Turkcell data centers and is managed by Turkcell.
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• CaaS: The HP CloudSystem Service Provider solution comes integrated with three core communications service families: messaging to increase productivity, collaboration to drive cooperation among remote teams, and business voice to automate and efficiently manage incoming calls.
  
  Turkcell, in its first phase, will focus on the messaging services, offering email, calendar and contact management to business customers. These services are based on HP’s integration with Microsoft® Exchange 2010 and Microsoft SQL.

More information is available at www.hp.com/go/cloudsystem.

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas. 

About Turkcell

Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, with 34.5 million subscribers and a market share of approximately 53 percent as of Dec. 31, 2011 (Source: Operator’s announcements as of Dec. 31). Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately 64.8 million subscribers as of Dec. 31, 2011. The company covers approximately 88 percent of the Turkish population through its 3G and 99.13 percent through its 2G technology supported network. It has become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented HSDPA+ and achieved a 43.2 Mbps speed using the HSPA multicarrier solution. Turkcell reported a TRY9.4 billion (US$5.6 billion) net revenue with total assets of TRY17.2 billion (US$9.1 billion) as of Dec. 31, 2011. It has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read more at www.turkcell.com.tr.

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Carly Fiorina on HP Printing & PC Business Merge

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina weighs in on Hewlett-Packard's decision to align its printing and PC businesses to cut costs.  To see the interview, click the link below:

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000080017

Press Release : March 21, 2012

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HP Announces Organizational Realignment

Topics:Financial

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP today announced an organizational realignment to improve performance and drive profitable growth across the entire HP portfolio.

As part of this realignment, HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) and its Personal Systems Group (PSG) are joining forces to create the Printing and Personal Systems Group. The combined entity will be led by Todd Bradley, who has served as the executive vice president of PSG since 2005.

Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of IPG, is retiring after a highly accomplished 31-year career at HP. Under Joshi’s leadership, IPG has grown revenue from $19 billion to $26 billion, and doubled its operating profit to approximately $4 billion.

“VJ embodies the spirit of HP and his impact on the company has been tremendous,” said Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer, HP. “Under his leadership, IPG accelerated innovation and pioneered solutions that transformed the printing market. We wish him the very best as he embarks on a new chapter in his life.”

Combining these two entities will rationalize HP’s go-to-market strategy, branding, supply chain and customer support worldwide. This will lead to a better customer experience and drive innovation across personal computing and printing. This realignment is expected to provide opportunities for cost savings and accelerate HP’s ability to pursue profitable growth and reinvest in the business.

“This combination will bring together two businesses where HP has established global leadership,” said Whitman. “By providing the best in customer-focused innovation and operational efficiency, we believe we will create a winning scenario for customers, partners and shareholders.”

In addition to combining PSG and IPG, HP also is taking steps to unify and streamline certain key business functions. 

The Global Accounts Sales organization will join the newly named HP Enterprise Group. This group will be led by David Donatelli and includes Enterprise Servers, Storage, Networking and Technology Services.

The new structure is expected to speed decision making, increase productivity and improve efficiency, while providing a simplified customer experience. A new role for Jan Zadak, executive vice president for Global Sales, will be announced at a later date. Zadak will work with Donatelli to ensure an orderly transition.

HP also announced that it will unify its Marketing functions across business units under Marty Homlish, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, HP. This will allow for even more effective brand-building and marketing activities, and will create efficiencies across the business units.

HP’s Communications employees worldwide also will be similarly unified under Henry Gomez, executive vice president and chief communications officer, HP. Together these two moves will create a more powerful voice to demonstrate the power of “One HP.”

Finally, HP is moving the Global Real Estate function from Finance into Global Technology and Business Processes to address real estate consolidation and improve the workplace experience for HP employees.

“Ensuring we have the right organizational structure in place is a critical first step in driving improved execution, and increasing effectiveness and efficiency,” added Whitman. “The result will be a faster, more streamlined, performance-driven HP that is customer focused and poised to capitalize on rapidly shifting industry trends.”

Cloud Services Provider CenterBeam Selects HP to Support Customer Demand

HP Converged Infrastructure, cloud-ready solutions enable CloudAgile partner to expand offerings

Topics:Cloud, Converged Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP today announced that cloud services provider CenterBeam has selected HP Converged Infrastructure to support the increased capacity demands of its cloud service offerings and joined the HP CloudAgile Program.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CenterBeam provides midsize businesses with enterprise-class cloud computing services, including hosted customer relationship management (CRM), hosted collaboration, virtual data center services and data storage management.

The rapid expansion of the cloud services market required CenterBeam to replace its EMC-based infrastructure, including EMC CLARiiON storage systems, to support significant customer data growth.

After evaluating solutions from Dell and EMC, CenterBeam selected HP VirtualSystem, including HP 3PAR storage and HP ProLiant BL460c G7 server blades, as the backbone for its hosted platform.

Migrating to HP 3PAR F400 Storage and HP VirtualSystem solutions has enabled CenterBeam to boost its storage throughput tenfold.⁽¹⁾ CenterBeam’s new infrastructure also enables its customers to store large amounts of infrequently used data to maintain high performance of mission-critical applications.

HP VirtualSystem provides CenterBeam a rapid path to agile and efficient virtualized application solutions. Its balanced architecture eliminates performance bottlenecks, while integrated management simplifies deployment and security across physical and virtual environments.

CenterBeam was able to reduce overall storage costs by more than 50 percent⁽²⁾ using HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software, which automatically moves infrequently used data from expensive Fibre Channel and flash drives to affordable SATA drives.

In addition, CenterBeam decreased storage administration by 60 percent⁽²⁾ with thin provisioning and a simplified management interface for seamless growth of its Microsoft® Exchange platform – without downtime. Thin provisioning technologies also provide the flexibility to purchase and provision disk capacity as needed.

“Exploding data growth is forcing our customers to find cost-effective options that increase capacity while maintaining performance levels of mission-critical applications,” said Shahin Pirooz, executive vice president and chief technology officer, CenterBeam. “The functionality and scalability of HP 3PAR systems enable us to offer affordable, flexible cloud storage services to our customers, while creating a unique competitive advantage for CenterBeam in the market.”

HP CloudAgile provides hosting, managed and cloud-based services

CenterBeam also has partnered with HP in the HP CloudAgile Program, which enables service providers to expand offerings with services built on HP 3PAR and HP VirtualSystem.

Leveraging HP technology, the HP CloudAgile Program offers service providers direct access to HP’s global sales force as well as the worldwide network of channel partners to extend their sales reach, expand their portfolio of service offerings and accelerate their time to market.

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

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⁽¹⁾ According to SPC-1 results available at www.storageperformance.org.

⁽²⁾ Based on client results.

News Release from HP - LANDesk Management

Press Release : March 12, 2012

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HP Helps Customers Realize Higher Value from PCs with New LANDesk Management Solutions

Topics:Technology and Innovation

PALO ALTO, Calif. == HP today announced it is offering LANDesk management solutions directly to business customers, enabling them to boost end-user productivity and more easily secure and connect devices across their environment.

Through this collaboration with LANDesk Software, HP business customers of all sizes can use LANDesk Management Suite to reduce the PC setup time for end users from hours to minutes.

By eliminating the need to stage deployments through IT departments, LANDesk management solutions help companies to increase efficiency and reduce cost while also resolving IT concerns like energy conservation, device and BIOS management, retail operating system and reporting support, and hardware-failure alerts.

“HP is committed to helping commercial customers mitigate issues that result in lost time, money and productivity,” said Dan Forlenza, vice president and general manager, Commercial Clients Global Business Unit, HP.

“This collaboration brings unique capabilities to HP customers in the area of client management, end-point security and IT service management,” said Mike Hall, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing, LANDesk Software. “We look forward to the continued integration of our joint solutions.”

LANDesk software from HP helps save customers time, money
HP business customers can leverage the powerful remote hardware management capabilities of the LANDesk software suite to reduce the need for costly, time-consuming desk-side visits by their IT department.

Automatic acquisition and remote deployment of the latest HP updates allows customers to easily install and deploy drivers and hardware and firmware updates from HP for their PCs.

Customers also can use one-to-many BIOS and firmware configuration changes to modify all settings on supported PCs. Plus, proactive hardware health alerting takes the guesswork out of thermal PC conditions and proactively senses potential hard drive failure.

In addition to the immediate availability of the LANDesk Management Suite, policy enforcement of key HP Professional Innovations, including HP Power Assistant power management tool and HP Connection Manager connectivity interface, is scheduled to be available in June. LANDesk support for HP thin clients will be available in October.

More information on the additional offerings coming throughout the year is available here.

Support for additional client management solutionsFor customers who have standardized on Microsoft® Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), HP will continue to maintain its HP Client Catalog. In October, HP will expand support for Microsoft SCCM with a new deployment pack that helps customers more easily perform scripted operating system installs and configure BIOS settings.

HP also will continue to offer its industry-leading HP Client Automation (HPCA) management solution, which provides high levels of end-client management automation and the lowest cost of ownership in an all-HP solution. HPCA uses desired-state, policy-driven technology to enable dynamic enterprises to ensure their end points are correct and functional, and that they have enhanced security. Fully integrated with HP hardware innovations and new technologies, HPCA provides one solution for all endpoints – physical and virtual, thick and thin. 

New integrated platform driver packs
Responding to customer feedback for a single file that contains all the necessary drivers for a particular platform or model, integrated driver packs from HP are scheduled for release by August for most desktop and notebook PCs and workstations launched since 2010. The driver packs will be available in LANDesk Management Suite, the HP Client Catalog for Microsoft SCCM and HP Softpaq Download Manager.

Additional information on supported PCs is available here.

About LANDesk Software
LANDesk Software is a leading provider of systems lifecycle management, endpoint security, and IT service management solutions for desktops, servers and mobile devices across the enterprise. LANDesk enables IT to deliver business value by gaining control of end-user computing with a single console, light infrastructure, and ITIL solutions that can deliver significant ROI for thousands of customers worldwide. LANDesk is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, and can be found at www.landesk.com.  

About HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.