de pedestal-tower servers, density-optimized rack servers and its BladeSystem family of server blades. Industry Standard Servers also provides hyperscale solutions for large distributed computing companies who buy and deploy compute nodes at a massive scale. Business Critical Systems: Business Critical Systems delivers the company’s Converged Infrastructure 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. The company supports the HP9000 servers and HP AlphaServers by offering customers the opportunity to upgrade these legacy systems to HP Integrity systems. Storage: The company’s storage offerings include storage platforms for high-end, mid-range and small business environments. Its primary product is the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Platform, which is designed for virtualization, cloud and IT-as-a-service. The Storage business has a range of products, including storage area networks, network attached storage, storage management software and virtualization technologies, StoreOnce data deduplication solutions, tape drives, and tape libraries. Networking: The company’s switch, router and wireless LAN products deliver open, scalable, secure, agile and consistent solutions for the data center, campus and branch networks. Its networking solutions are based on its FlexNetwork architecture, which is designed to enable simplified server virtualization, unified communications and multi-media application delivery for the enterprise. Software This segment provides enterprise information management solutions for both structured and unstructured data, IT management software, and security intelligence/risk management solutions. Solutions are delivered in the form of traditional software licenses, software-as-a-service, hybrid or appliance deployment models. Augmented by support and professional services, the company’s software solutions allow IT organizations to gain customer insight and optimize infrastructure, operations, application life cycles, application quality, security, IT services and business processes. In addition, these solutions help businesses proactively safeguard digital assets, comply with corporate and regulatory policies, and control internal and external security risks. HPFS This segment supports and enhances its global product and service solutions, providing a range of value-added financial life cycle management services. HPFS its worldwide customers to acquire complete IT solutions, including hardware, software and services. HPFS offers leasing, financing, utility programs and asset recovery services, as well as financial asset management services for large global and enterprise customers. HPFS also provides a range of specialized financial services to SMBs and educational and governmental entities. HPFS offers customized and flexible alternatives to balance customer cash flow, technology obsolescence and capacity needs. Corporate Investments This segment includes business intelligence solutions, HP Labs, the webOS business and certain business incubation projects. Business intelligence solutions enable businesses to standardize on data management schemes, connect and share data across the enterprise and apply analytics. Sales, Marketing, and Distribution The company’s customers are organized by consumer and commercial customer groups, and purchases of HP products and services may be fulfilled directly by HP or indirectly through various partners, including retailers that sell its products to the public through their own physical or Internet stores; resellers that sell its products and services, frequently with their own value-added products or services, to targeted customer groups; distribution partners that supply its solutions to smaller resellers; original equipment manufacturers that integrate its products with their own hardware or software and sell the integrated products; independent software vendors that provide their clients with specialized software products, and often assist it in selling its products and services to clients purchasing their products;