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For the 14th consecutive year, HP has received PC Magazine's Reader's Choice Award for printer satisfaction, placing in the top 5.

HP received nine Digital Imaging Marketing Association Awards (DIMA) at the PMA 2009 tradeshow, including five DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out Awards, across multiple imaging and printing categories.

The Digital Printer Shoot-Out Awards showcases competing products that use similar digital printing technology. HP’s winning entries, chosen by DIMA members prior to PMA, included the HP Photosmart ML1000 Minilab Printer, HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-One, HP Photosmart D7560 Printer, HP Photosmart D5460 Printer, HP Photosmart A636 Home Photo Center, HP Durable Banner with DuPont Tyvek® and the HP Designjet Z6100 Photo Printer.

HP received nine Digital Imaging Marketing Association Awards (DIMA) at the PMA 2009 tradeshow, including two Innovative Digital Product Awards, across multiple imaging and printing categories.

HP iPrint Photo and Photo Center 4.0 both received top honors in the ‘Best in Show’-style competition. DIMA members chose the products for being technologically innovative or first of their kind.

The HP Access Control Smartcard Solution for U.S. Government has won a Best of FOSE Award in the Security Hardware Category. This optional feature for HP's workgroup multifunction printers (MFPs) allows government agencies to use smart cards, such as DOD’s Common Access Cards, to control the scanning, copying and faxing features workers can use. When a user inserts a CAC, the MFP will query Active Directory for a set of permissions. HP had government agencies’ mandate to provide employees with smart identification cards in mind when it designed this feature.

A 9 out of 10 Star Rating was awarded to HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n Desktop PC by Wired magazine. In addition to the standard features found on media centers, this one has a dizzying array of extras. The front panel has not only video inputs, but also firewire ports for hooking up a camcorder, memory card readers for most any format, and a dock for an optional HP disk drive.

The HP Pavilion a1350n received a perfect 5 out of 5-star rating from About.com. Acknowledging the need for ample storage space to compile digital videos, photographs and audio, the a1350n's very large 250GB hard drive was impressive. With a full gigabyte of RAM, dual-core processor, and attractive price point, the a1350n is called one of the best overall values when it comes to a mainstream desktop PC computer system.

HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7470n Desktop PC was awarded a 4.5 out of a possible 5 star rating by TopTechNews in its May 22 issue. With a fast processor, loads of memory, huge storage capacity and TV and radio capabilities, this is computer well suited to most multimedia tasks. But for game-playing, be sure to upgrade to a dedicated video card.

The HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n Desktop PC received a 4.5 out of 5 star rating from BusinessWeek's Online. Called a cut well above the rest, the m7360n is a perfect solution for data-storage capacity problems, with an impressive hard-drive, LightScribe technology and overall great performance.

PC World has awarded its Best Buy Award in the 'All Purpose Laptops' category to the HP dv5000z. This well priced and very portable Media Center notebook benefits from thoughtful design plus very good performance.

HP Pavilion dv8000z has won PC Magazine's Best Buy Award, taking first place in the Power Laptop category. The sleek dv8000z offers strong battery life, a built-in TV tuner, and solid performance in everything but gaming.

In PCWorld's most recent roundup of dual-core value desktops, HP's Pavilion Media Center m7590n has won a Best Buy Award because of its affordable $1300 price, scads of features, and strong performance on WorldBench. Read the review that earned this PC a place in the top 10.

On the cover of PC World’s August issue, the HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7490n Desktop PC was showcased as the 'Best Buy' winner for Powerful PCs. Touted as a terrific system for multimedia, the m7490n contains just about everything you could want in a multimedia machine.

The Compaq Presario SR1820NX Desktop PC received an 8.5 of 10 star rating from Computer Shopper -- sharing first place honors in Computer Shopper’s roundup of 'Sub $500 Desktops' --touting the machine’s double-layer DVD burner with Lightscribe and 160GB hard drive.

PC Magazine has chosen Compaq Presario CQ5110f to receive an Editors’ Choice award. The CQ5110f earned 4 out of a possible 5 star rating for entry-level desktops and is priced to offer a better value than many compact nettops. The chassis is a bit larger, but it's a dual-core, full-featured desktop, and doesn't have to make the compromises that nettops make.

Computer Shopper has given the HP Pavilion Slimline s5160f an 8.2 out of 10 score and an Editors’ Choice Award saying that those needing a fair amount of PC muscle for video editing and other CPU-centric tasks, but also want to kick back and watch a Blu-ray movie or some digital TV will find a lot to like in this PC. In fact, the HP Pavilion Slimline s5160f could serve as a near-perfect dorm PC, particularly if paired with a small HDTV.

Computer Shopper has awarded an Editor’s Choice award to the Pavilion Elite e9120f. Giving it an 8.3 out of 10 score, they commented that the Elite e920f offers a great balance of application performance and price in a mainstream desktop PC.

In the March issue of Laptop Magazine, the HP Pavilion dv1000 has won the Editor's Choice award for 'Best Bang for the Buck.' Stating that the dv1000 is an amazing departure from the laptops you're used to, in both looks and features. It even comes preloaded with iTunes.

CNET has named the Compaq Presario V5000Z the most affordable laptop on its top 100 tech products list. With a starting price of just $549, the Compaq Presario V5000Z is one of the least expensive base models on the market. A solid all-around notebook for a student or a home user who needs good performance and a fairly complete set of basic features, including a LightScribe double-layer optical drive and a multiformat media-card reader.

CNET has awarded 5 HP Pavilion models high marks in their categories for their Editor’s top laptop choices: Desktop Replacements - Pavilion dv8000, Gaming Laptops - Pavilion zd8000, Midsize Laptops - HP Pavilion dv4000, Thin and Light - HP Pavilion dv5000z and HP Pavilion dv1000t.

Laptop Magazine says with the updating of the sleek thin-and-light notebooks the dv1000t has gone to huge desktop replacement and a multitasking machine for everyone. So for entertaining at a moment’s notice and multitasking like the fastest desktops, the dv1000t wins 4 stars out of 5.

The HP Compaq Presario V5000Z has made CNET’s Top 100 Products in the ‘Most Affordable Laptop’ category. The Presario V5000Z is a solid all-around notebook for students or home users needing good performance and a fairly complete set of basic features. Best of all, at a starting price of $549, the V5000Z is one of the least expensive base models on the market.

Computer Shopper (online) has chosen the HP Pavilion dv6000z Entertainment Notebook PC as one of the top ‘Four Laptops for Less Than $1,000’ that will run Vista. In their March 19 publication, they state that with both performance and looks the dv6000z delivers the complete package.

PC Magazine posted a glowing report of the Artist Edition dv2800t notebook, awarding it an Editors’ Choice Award and a rating of 4.5 out of 5. Calling it a work of art, they stated that the dv2800t is a head-turner, and an inexpensive one at that.

With 4 out of a possible 5 star rating, Pavilion dv5t has earned Laptop’s Editors’ Choice Award. Available in the July/August timeframe, according to the published report, the dv5t backs up its aesthetics with serious horsepower.

InfoWorld has compared the single-core implementation of the ProLiant DL585 and the Sun Fire V20z, the 1U dual-processor sibling of the Sun Fire V40z. The DL585 had the edge in manageability and high-availability features, concluding that the ProLiant DL585 is a better server.

DM Review has announced that HP has won its 2005 Readership Award in the Server category. Each year, readers are polled to determine the top companies serving the technology needs of the business intelligence community in specific market segments.

Congratulations to the HP ProLiant 580 G5, for having been selected as SQL Server Magazine EDITOR’S BEST 2008 GOLD WINNER in the Hardware category. The magazine calls the ProLiant 580 G5 an evolutionary step forward, with particular enticements for SQL Server admins.

HP’s fault-tolerant Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem has won the Gold for best server in 2008 in the SearchDatacenter.com Product of the Year competition, topping IBM’s z10 Business Class mainframe and Sun’s SPARC Enterprise T5440 server. HP has lowered the pricing bar for entry into fault-tolerance computing with the NB5000c, and analysts have commented that HP's decision to use blade form factors for fault-tolerant servers is beneficial for users.

In a comparative review of 2-processor servers (Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, Lenovo and Sun,) HP’s ProLiant DL380 G6 scores an Editors’ Choice award. ZDNet states that HP’s total solution is a hard act to beat — all the more so given the services, software and other products that can be wrapped around HP and its resellers’ offerings.

Storage Magazine/Search Storage.com recently named their '2005 Products of the Year' and a Bronze Award in the Networking Category was given to HP StorageWorks MSA 1000 Small Business SAN kit because it's easy to buy, install, manage and upgrade.

HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System has been selected as a Windows IT Pro Magazine Community Choice 2008 Gold Winner in the Backup & Recovery Products category. Windows IT Pro magazine calls Storageworks D2D a product that makes automated backup and recovery easy and affordable and works with your existing tape-backup process.

Editors from Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine recently announced the winners of the Best of TechEd 2009 Awards at Tech Ed 2009 and HP’s StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) was named winner in the Hardware, Networking and Storage category.

The winners were evaluated based on each finalist's strategic importance, competitive advantage, and value to customers. The full list of categories and winners can be viewed via the URL provided.

The results of Business Solutions magazine’s ‘2009 Best Channel Products’ survey are in and HP earned the following two wins.

SAN category: HP LeftHand P4300 4.8TB SAS Starter SAN

Top 2 Categories: Product Reliability/Durability, Richness Of Features/Functionality

VAR Comment: “This product has a broad appeal to both small and large customers. It installs and scales better than any other product. This product is five stars.”

Data Protection Category: HP Data Protector Express

Top 2 Categories: Product Reliability/Durability, Ease Of Integration

VAR Comment: “The ability to encrypt data on any kind of backup media is a bonus to this product’s solid performance.”

Business Solutions partnered with Penn State University to ensure statistical accuracy of the survey. For details and a list of all the current winners, click on the link provided.

HP's Insight Power Manager (IPM) has placed third in SearchDataCenter.com’s Products of the Year awards in the Capacity and Power Management Tools category.

Focusing solely on the power side of the equation, IPM allows users to measure power consumption and air temperature for servers, as well as setting power caps for servers that don't need the maximum consumption listed on the nameplates. For more details check the URL attached.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media and events company, has announced the winners of its Virtualization Journal 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. And the winner in the Best Grid Virtualization category is HP’s Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager.

The Virtual Journal’s Readers’ Choice awards recognize the best tools, solutions, and platform offerings in 18 categories. Winners were selected through reader-submitted nominations, followed by online voting at SYS-CON Media's world-leading Virtualization Journal online magazine site.

The following HP products also placed as finalists:

Best Device Virtualization

-HP VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant

Best Network Virtualization

-HP Virtual Connect and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

Best Server Virtualization Platforms

-HP VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant

Best Storage Virtualization

-HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)

Recognized by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) and Local Industry Standards Association (LISA), the ten best companies who provide excellent web site support internationally were the first annual LISA Awards winners. In this challenging category HP's Customer Care and IT Resource Center sites have won by providing exceptional online support to global customers.

For the second consecutive year, HP has placed #2 in the Fintech 100 top 25 Enterprise companies in Financial Services. American Banker and global independent advisory firm Financial Insights, an IDC Company, released the second annual FinTech ranking of the Top 25 Enterprise Companies in the financial services industry worldwide. This listing honors technology companies such as HP that sell applications, services or infrastructure software/hardware to multiple industries and are established leaders with a strong focus on the financial services industry with a significant percentage of revenues attributed to financial services.

EDS Applications Modernization Services has been named to KMWorld’s Trend Setting Product list of 2009, with the article featured in the September 2009 issue and then online. These product awards began in 2003 with more than 800 products assessed by our judging panel this year. The products selected all demonstrate clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers.

Everything Channel awarded HP with their Best Midmarket Solution – Hardware Winner at the recent Midsize Enterprise Summit West conference. The awards were voted on by midsize CIO attendees in six categories: best hardware solution, software solution, services solution, best execution of a midmarket IT solution, best presentation and best of show.

HP won in their category over Compellent, Kace and TriGeo. HP also captured this award at MES West last year.

HP OpenView was awarded NetworkWorld’s Clear Choice Award for excellent network discovery, root-cause problem analysis, task automation, responsive and intuitive user interface, and scalability. NetworkWorld tested HP's OpenView Network Node Manager 7.5, OpenView Operations 7.5 and OpenView Internet Services 6.0.

In a recent Network World magazine comparative review of monitoring and management products for midrange networks, OpenView Network Node Manager scored Clear Choice honors. The review notes, “Network Node Manager has a distributed architecture that scales well to handle larger and more complex network environments. Network Node Manager even monitors itself to make sure it's running normally.” For the full Network World article click on the link provided.

Each year, Network World Magazine names 10-12 products as its ‘Best of the Tests’ designees. From the previous 12 months of testing the highest scoring products win an award in the specific product category in which it fits. The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure product received the nod in the category of Network Infrastructure. The BladeSystem c3000 is now available in tower or rack model configurations, and offers a number of other optional features and interconnect modules.

In the January 2nd InfoWorld, HP has won 'Best of 2005' Technology Awards in the following three categories:

Best Industry Standard Server: HP ProLiant DL585 - Outstanding out-of-band management and serviceability

Best NAS Killer: HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway with PolyServe Matrix Server - Brings the processing power and high-availability of clustering to Linux and Windows

Best Storage Management Software: HP Storage Essentials 4.0 - Accurate discovery, powerful provisioning, and seamless support for heterogeneous hardware

Windows IT Pro Magazine's Fourth Annual Readers' Choice Awards competition has just announced its winners and HP has won the top spot in the following five areas:

* Capacity Planning and Trend Analysis Software, Hewlett-Packard, OpenView Performance Insight

* Document Management/Imaging Software, Hewlett-Packard, HP Output Server

* Storage Area Network, Hewlett-Packard, HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) 1000 Small Business SAN Kit

* Tablet PC, Hewlett-Packard, HP Compaq tc4200 Tablet PC

* PDA/Cell Phone/Smart Phone, HP, iPAQ Pocket PC series

You can read all the details in the September 1 issue of Windows IT Pro.

Two HP printers recently won Computer Shopper’s Editor’s Choice awards: the HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One rated 8.5 of a possible 10 and the HP Color Laserjet CP2025dn rated 8.9. Full details of the impressive wins are shown.

IPC World recently included the HP LP2275w and HP 2009m in the Top five 20- and 22-inch monitors giving both a ‘very good’ rating.

Recently, HP was honored with several ‘Best in Category’ wins from the 2009 PC World Latin America Awards. At a recent event, the following products received the top honor in their categories:

- HP Proliant BL 490 G6

- HP Officejet Pro 8500 WL

- HP TouchSmart IQ520la

- HP EliteBook 2530p Notebook PC

- HP Mini 110-1030 LA

Select the URL provided to view all categories and winners.

HP Blackbird 002 wins PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award in their recent ‘The Ultimate PC Buying Guide’. The Blackbird’s efficiency, cooling, performance, serviceability, and good looks raised the bar way above the competition's reach and it earned five stars – the highest rating possible.

Scoring 8.5 of a possible 10, HP Blackbird has won the Digital Trends ‘Editors Choice’ award. With an incredible design inside and out. blistering performance, cool and quiet, the Blackbird is an incredible machine like nothing ever seen before.