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In built value add for your business

  The following HP lifecycle solutions are included when you purchase select HP business PCs, providing built-in total cost of ownership value to your business.
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» HP Product Commonality

  • Common software image
  • Common hardware

» HP Client Management Solutions

  • Client Management Solutions

» HP Change Management

  • Change control
  • Change notification
  • Change deployment

» What´s new in HP Client Management Solutions

New HP local recovery
  • Preloaded or downloaded
  • Safeguard your operating system and critical data
  • Easy Installation
  • Simple recovery
  • Unlimited online support
  • Upgrade options

HP Product Commonality

Common software image

Common software image across product families using the same chipset.  This means fewer images to write, manage, and deploy.


Common hardware

Common MultiBay and power supply components across HP Compaq c-series notebooks, simplifying spare parts and inventory management, as well as investment protection

HP Change Management

Change control

  • Establishes the product roadmap and duration of the product lifecycle.
  • Provides consistent products throughout the defined lifecycle.
  • Accumulates any changes that will occur into a minimal number of product changes to lessen the impact on the customer's computing environment.
Change notification
  • Proactively communicates product hardware and software changes that will be implemented in the manufactured product configuration, in advance to the customer so they can plan ahead.
  • Offers proactive e-mail notification of product hardware and software changes based on a customer-defined profile thereby providing only those changes that will impact their unique computing environment.
HP notifies commercial PC and server product customers of hardware and software changes that will be implemented into manufacturing.  The notification occurs through the Product Change Notification web site.

Change deployment

  • Installs system software (BIOS and driver) updates, unattended, from a central repository to the machines for which the update is intended.

System Software Manager (SSM) is a free tool for unattended installation of system software. It allows for easy distribution from a centralized file store, with no software distribution infrastructure. SSM detects older versions of software and identifies the absence of critical system software on the client system. SSM then automatically upgrades the client with the latest software from the central file store. Multiple systems in a network, even those running different operating systems, can be updated simultaneously - all behind the scenes. For more information, visit the System Software Manager web site.


HP Client Management Solutions

Client management

  • Robust hardware management with HP Client Manager software.
  • Single web-based console for client hardware and software management throughout the entire IT lifecycle.
  • HP-wide systems management integration with Insight Manager and HP Openview.
  • Simplified initial deployment with a 30-day free Altiris Deployment Solution software license with each HP Compaq Business Desktop and HP Compaq Business Notebook.

For more information about client management solutions, visit the HP Client Management web site.

What´s new in HP Client Management?

NEW HP Local Recovery

HP provides free data and system file protection for its business desktops, notebooks, and workstations with Local Recovery for HP Business PCs from Altiris. With Local Recovery, you can quickly recover and get back to work when information is accidentally deleted or your operating system is corrupted.

How can your company protect against potentially disastrous data loss? Local Recovery helps protect the data and system state of your HP computer by taking scheduled snapshots, stored in a protected area on the local hard drive. System backup and disaster recovery is now simpler and faster for all users, and especially critical to mobile PC users, regardless of connectivity.

Click here to download Brochure (PDF, 216 Kb)


HP Local Recovery Preloaded or Downloaded

Local Recovery is pre-loaded on new HP commercial PC models starting in May 2004. You can also download it at the following link and load it on your current HP commercial PC.

Click here to download Local Recovery    

Safeguard your operating system and critical data with HP Local Recovery

Supports data recovery from a user's local hard drive

Enables quick recovery from accidental file deletion or system corruption

Patented, intelligent technology utilized for data backup/recovery

Provides faster backup and minimizes storage space

Redundant file elimination (RFE)
Filters out files that already exist, so that only one copy of file is stored
Redundant block elimination (RBE)

Reduces data size by storing only the portions of each file that are different from the previous snapshot

HLZS data compression

Provides an industry-standard solution for lossless data compression

Embedded bootwork partition

Data protection in a hidden partition; cannot be accidentally deleted or removed

Backs up an unlimited number of snapshots

Provides ability to roll back to a known good state or recover individual documents/files from a long history

Supports automatically-scheduled or user-initiated snapshots
Critical data preserved without the user needing to remember to initiate a backup

Easy installation

Installation is quick and user-friendly. On systems with Local Recovery code pre-loaded, you simply select the "start menu" entry for Local Recovery. An HTML page pops up with a product overview, a link to the user guide, and an "install now" button that leads you through the installation process. If you download Local Recovery from the Web, information on the Web page will instruct you on how to download and install the product on your PC.

Simple recovery

With Local Recovery, file restoration is just a mouseclick or keystroke away. To recover a deleted file, simply drag and drop using Windows Explorer. For a full system restoration, press the F11 key during boot up and then select “full restore” from the menu.

Unlimited online support

The support model for Local Recovery is the same as with HP Client Manager Software and other Altiris products. Customers have unlimited access to the following free Altiris online support tools:

  • Altiris Knowledge Forum – Lets you find answers to technical issues.
  • Altiris Support Forum – Allows you to post a question and open an incident with Altiris support staff. Target response time to incidents is less than 24 hours.

Additional fee-based Altiris support, such as training classes or an assigned support contact, may be purchased through HP.

Upgrade options

If you require additional recovery features, HP offers two additional products from Altiris that enhance the functionality of Local Recovery:

  • Altiris Local Recovery Pro – Provides all the capabilities of Local Recovery, plus support for backup and recovery of open and locked files. During a backup snapshot, this feature preserves information contained in open files, such as e-mail messages, presentations, and word processing documents. Customers may upgrade to Local Recovery Pro by purchasing a license through HP.
  • Altiris Recovery Solution – Provides complete enterprise-level backup and recovery of PCs from a central administrative console; backs up data to either a protected area on the local hard drive or to a network storage area.
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