Hp 360° a Panoramic View of the World’S Largest Information Technology Company
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HP 360° A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY UNLEASHING NEW POSSIBILITIES HP technology is in places you’d never imagine, helping to make our world a better place. See page 4 PUSHING BOUNDARIES What will technology help us do tomorrow? That’s what HP Labs is charged with answering. Learn about their most promising projects. See page 8 DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD A company as large as HP touches countless lives, businesses, and communities every second of every day. See what we’re doing in areas such as environment, education, supply chain, and more. See page 18 THE START OF A GLOBAL PRESENCE Today, although our corporate headquarters are still located in Palo Alto, SOMETHING BIG California, we have more than 320,000 employees doing business in 170 countries around the world. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services, and IT infrastructure, HP had revenues reaching $126 billion for the four fiscal quarters ending October 31, 2010. www.hp.com/hpinfo AN EYE ON THE FUTURE By 2025, worldwide population is expected to increase by 20%, and the population in the world’s cities will grow by more than 1 billion people—the equivalent of adding a Beijing every other month. And as the human population explodes, an information explosion is going on as well. The total amount of information is projected to double every four years, with digital content doubling every 18 months. These shifts will present the world’s governments, businesses, On 1 January 1939, two Stanford and citizens with tremendous challenges—but also tremendous opportunities. University graduates, Bill Hewlett Data is fast becoming the world’s most valuable raw material, and information and Dave Packard, made a historic the world’s most valuable commodity. At HP we are enabling the creation, commitment to innovation when consumption, and delivery of information through always-on connectivity. And they founded HP in a garage. They we are dedicated to empowering people through solutions and experiences that created an audio oscillator that will allow all of us to thrive in this new connected world. Walt Disney used to make the ground-breaking movie Fantasia. For over 70 years since then, HP has continued innovating and helping people, businesses, and communities worldwide use technology to improve their businesses and lives. www.hp.com/hpinfo/ abouthp/histnfacts 2 | HP 360° A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY UNLIKE ANY OTHER HP PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY. 3 BILLION MILLION 1 64.3 Medicaid claims are handled by HP every year—and we distribute more than $100 billion USD in benefits. PCs were sold by HP in 2010.1 MILLION 500 2 travel reservations are booked annually by HP. 20,000+ BILLION HP employees are currently 13.1 serving 409 government credit card transactions are clients in 32 countries. processed by HP annually. 109 domestic and international air carriers are currently served by HP—more than any other IT services provider. # BILLION 2 1.7 HP’s ranking on Newsweek’s spam messages per month are 2010 “Green Rankings” 130 on both the U.S. 500 and examined and stopped by of the world’s stock and commodity exchanges, including the HP software. Global 100 Greenest New York Stock Exchange, are powered by HP. Companies lists. A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST IT COMPANY | 3 UNLEASHING NEW POSSIBILITIES AT HP WE BELIEVE technology can create new possibilities for people around the world—from high school students and soccer moms to budding entrepreneurs, government officials, and senior executives. Our healthcare solutions are helping hospitals reduce errors and insurers bring down costs. Our TouchSmart products are helping individuals with autism communicate for the very first time. Our digital printing solutions are revolutionizing the publishing industry by allowing publishers to print individual books on demand. And that’s just the beginning. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities. So we never stop exploring. And we can’t wait to show you what we think of next. IN THE UNITED STATES, a nurse in a VA hospital is scanning bar codes created by the HP Patient ID system to make sure her patient gets the right medication. IN SINGAPORE, a regional sales team is using HP Visual Collaboration solutions to have face-to-face meetings with their U.S. counterparts—without ever setting foot on an airplane. IN JAPAN, a bank is using the HP Carbon Counter to measure its greenhouse gas emissions and set goals to reduce them. 4 | HP 360° IN THE UK, HP engineers have harnessed the temperate air in the north of England to cool our newest data center—one of the largest and most energy-efficient in Europe. IN HOLLYWOOD, a team of animators is using HP workstations to create scenes so realistic and complex, they would have been impossible six years ago. IN AUSTRALIA, every arrival and departure that involves the country’s airports and seaports—nearly 22 million a year—is processed by HP software. IN NORWAY, a hospital is using HP thin clients mobile devices to empower patients and allow doctors to easily capture and share vital patient data such as X-rays and lab results. IN ARKANSAS, an automated enrollment system from HP is helping uninsured and underinsured women across the state access the resources and treatment they need to keep breast and cervical cancer at bay. A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST IT COMPANY | 5 DID YOU KNOW? HP MANAGES OVER 200 DATA CENTERS, 380,000 SERVERS, 5.4 MILLION DESKTOPS, AND 17 MILLION IP ADDRESSES. Hewlett-Packard HP Labs founded—development of The world’s first scientific 1939 Company founded 1966 HP’s first computer 1972 pocket calculator (HP 35) 1984 6 | HP 360° TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP 4 Ranked #16 on the 2010 World’s Most # Innovative Companies list by BusinessWeek 1in: • LaserJet and inkjet printers • x86 servers, Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux Ranked #2 in Newsweek’s Greenest Big servers Companies in America list for 2010 • Desktop PCs • Thin clients #1 on Corporate Responsibility Officer’s 5 • Workstations 100 Best Corporate Citizens List • Blade servers • Total disk storage systems • Distributed system management software Listed as one of the 2011 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World and • Automated software quality as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes # 2 in: • IT services • Ethernet switches • Notebook PCs First HP inkjet printer Merger of HP and Compaq Merger of HP and EDS Acquisition of Palm and laser printer 2002 (with Digital and Tandem) 2008 2010 A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST IT COMPANY | 7 INNOVATION HP LABS HP WITH A PURPOSE CREATING THE FUTURE What will technology help us do tomorrow? That’s the FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS question that HP Labs is charged with answering. We Have you ever wondered if it would be possible to have hundreds of dedicated researchers in seven labs create an electronic newspaper? A digital display so around the world working on things like expanding thin, light, and flexible that you could fold it without the potential of today’s cloud computing technology; breaking it? The scientists at HP Labs have. And creating interactive displays that use ambient light with the invention of self-aligning imprint lithography instead of backlighting; and building a Central (SAIL), they’re in the process of making it happen. A Nervous System for the Earth, so we can react more monochrome prototype has already been created, quickly to things like natural disasters, hazardous and a color display is expected within three years. road conditions, and even home gas leaks. But that’s Mass production of such displays could enable a new just the beginning. In all, HP Labs researchers are generation of smartphones, laptops, and other mobile focused on 24 large-scale or “big-bet” projects in electronic devices as well. eight high-impact research areas: printing and content delivery, mobile and immersive experience, cloud and A CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FOR THE EARTH security, information analytics, intelligent infrastructure, networking, services, and sustainability. Our research What if your car could tell you it needed to be is focused on tackling some of the world’s toughest serviced before it broke down, your house could problems, creating new opportunities, and putting heat itself just before you arrived home from work, or innovation into the hands of millions of people around the bridge you had to cross every day could notify the world. officials that a steel support needed to be replaced before it became a danger? HP Labs is working to www.hpl.hp.com turn those possibilities into reality with the Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE) project, a COMPUTERS THAT LEARN highly intelligent network of billions of nano-scale Computers are about to get a whole lot smarter sensors that can feel, taste, smell, see, and hear what thanks to HP’s discovery of the fourth basic element is going on in the world. CeNSE will allow our world in integrated circuits: the memristor—long rumored, to speak to us so we can make better, faster decisions but just recently proven to actually exist. Ultimately the and take action to improve our own safety, security, memristor will allow computer systems to permanently and sustainability. retain and link information by recognizing patterns, just like the human brain. It could make possible cell phones that don’t lose memory, data centers that operate despite fluctuations in power, and computers that learn from experience. MEET THE TEAM: At the heart of HP Labs are some of the IT industry’s most influential researchers and scientists.