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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.

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.

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.

Recently the Pavilion Elite m9600t earned a rating of 8.1 of a possible 10 from Computer Shopper. With major expandability and connectivity options, the midtower m9600t will surprise you since it’s packed with enough extras to please.

HP Pavilion Elite m9550f has won Computer Shopper’s Editors’ Choice Award with an 8.6 out of 10 rating. Calling the HP Pavilion Elite m9550f a great value for a mainstream PC, Computer Shoppers says it offers excellent multimedia and gaming performance, as well as smart usability features.

PC Magazine has included the Pavilion Elite m9400t in its list of best desktops in its December ‘The Best in Tech’ issue, noting that it has almost everything you’d want in a media-creation system, without those expensive extras you don’t.

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.

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.

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.

HP ProLiant DL585 has been selected as the Bronze winner for Windows IT Pro Magazine Editor’s Best 2008 in the Hardware category. Windows IT Pro calls the ProLiant DL585 a rackmounted enterprise-class server with amazing performance.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

HP has placed second in the 2007 FinTech top 25 enterprise companies ranking, an international annual listing of the leading technology vendors providing solutions to the financial services industry. The ranking is produced by American Banker and Financial Insights, an IDC company, and recognizes enterprise technology companies that have demonstrated a strong solution focus, established leadership and earned a significant percentage of revenues from the financial services industry.

HP will receive its FinTech 2007 Award and will be recognized for its achievement at an awards ceremony on November 14, 2007 at the BAI Retail Delivery Show in Las Vegas.

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For a prestigious third year in a row, American Banker and the research firm Financial Insights have named HP as #2 in the FinTech Top 25 Technology Enterprise Companies, an international annual listing of the top financial services industry technology vendors providing solutions for the industry.

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 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.

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.

In its November Issue, Computer Shopper has selected the following four HP products to name as ‘Best 100 Products of the Year" in their individual categories:

Best Budget PC: HP Pavilion a6560f

Best Home-Theater PC: HP Pavilion Elite m9200t

Best Small-Form-Factor PC: HP Pavilion Slimline S3330f

Best-Designed PC: HP TouchSmart IQ506

Each award is detailed on the Computer Shopper web site and can be read by selecting each of the product links.

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.

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.