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Overview: HP is among the world's largest IT companies; with revenue totaling $118.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended October 31, 2008. In 2008, HP was number 14 on the Fortune 500 list.
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Research offered by Hewlett-Packard Company
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A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 2008 - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Application Quality Lifecycle: Security, Functional and Performance Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 01, 2007 - HP QAInspect delivers automated security information that QA professionals and software testers can access at any point in the application development process to identify and remediate potential security defects.
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 22, 2008 - This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 13, 2009 - The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.
Best Practices for Backup - Podcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Backup - Videocast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & Migrations with HP and Novell by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 02, 2009 - Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.
Brazilian Navy Moves from Mainframe to HP Platform: Modernizing IT, Cutting Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
. January 22, 2009 - When the Brazilian Navy needed to reduce the BRL 6 million (US$3 million) spent annually to keep their mainframe operational, they chose an HP- and Oracle®-based distributed platform as an alternative to the mainframe environment. Costs have been reduced by approximately 80% vs. mainframe database software costs.
Building High-performance, Highly Available IP Storage Networks with HP SAN/iQ Software by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 13, 2009 - If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.
Case Study: Snapfish Builds a Massive, High-Performing, Scalable Storage Infrastructure with HP Scalable NAS and EVA and MSA Storage Arrays by Hewlett-Packard Company
. November 19, 2008 - Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.
Case Study: U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.
Choosing The Right Hardware and Software for Data Protection Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 18, 2008 - With the increasing importance of disk-based data protection, the question arises on what are the relative choices of disk and tape for basic operational recovery. The answer lies in what data protection software technologies are used and for what reasons. This white paper gives more information.
Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency in the Upcoming Technology Refresh Cycle by Hewlett-Packard Company
. January 31, 2008 - This paper encourages all businesses to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. The timing could not be better. There is also a business case to be made that the 'business as usual' environment could view the "green" initiative as a compelling event unto itself.
Continuity of Operations Planning: Implement COOP Requirements For Storage with HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 06, 2009 - Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) is the disciplined planning needed to prepare for a natural or man-made emergency that affects service availability. This data sheet presents an effective solution for COOP from HP.
Convergence That Makes Sense - Bringing Together Voice and Data Networks by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Converged voice and data networks are becoming a major part of every IT strategy. There are significant advantages in bringing together voice, video, e-mail, instant messaging, business data, and office applications in a single, integrated network. Convergence is not just about cost savings anymore.
Converging Voice and IT Networks to Mobilize the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure.
Culture Change Considerations Due to Unified Communications by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 05, 2008 - This IDC Insight provides an overview of the culture change considerations that end users should consider before adapting a UC solution.
Customer case studies using HP Business Availability Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 01, 2009 - Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.
D2D Virtual Tape Library Replication Primer by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 17, 2009 - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 15, 2008 - This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market.
Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Data Deduplication – Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 26, 2009 - There are so many different types of deduplication: source, target, hash-based, delta differential-based, and global dedupe, for example. Read this presentation transcript for a discussion of data backup methods, data security, and data storage strategies for various environments.
Developing a mission-critical hardware strategy for your SAP environment by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 27, 2009 - How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.
Disaster Recovery with the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway Linux Version and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2007 - This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery.
Disk and Tape Square Off Again - Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4 by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 29, 2008 - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 2008 - Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them.
eGuide: Data Center Efficiency in 2009 by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 18, 2009 - In this HP-sponsored E-guide, learn how virtualization and open source systems management tools better enable a data center to weather tight economic times. Discover why it is critical to scale back data center energy use to limit long-term capital expenditure.
eGuide: Making IT Automation a Reality by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2008 - This expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation.
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2008 - This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.
File Systems Define the Future for Managing Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 30, 2008 - Read this study for a thorough review of the file-based storage market. It describes technology while establishing use cases, analyzing the opportunity, and putting forth assumptions about the future.
Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End-User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 01, 2008 - This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers.
Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 08, 2008 - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Four Key Ingredients for Successful Mobile Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - To compete and succeed in the changing market, service providers need to enhance their voice offerings and at the same time deliver innovative new experiences for their customers. In this white paper, we present four key ingredients for making this approach work.
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 12, 2009 - The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data with a Unified User Profile by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives.
Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 25, 2009 - HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides
practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.
How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2007 - Read this white paper to learn how to effectively manage these large scale networks to ensure that customers are receiving the level of service for which they have contracted.
How to control the risk and costs of e-discovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 06, 2009 - In this webcast hear from leading analyst firm Gartner Research and Information Management solution providers HP on how to reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery, with a focus on Legal Hold best practice and solutions, and how a proactive e-discovery strategy will help you optimize the Legal Hold process.
HP Data Protector 6.1 Software: VMware Integration Installation Best Practice by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 10, 2009 - This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 03, 2009 - In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations. by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 2008 - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.
HP LeftHand SAN Failback Procedure for VMware by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 05, 2009 - This white paper documents the procedure for failback from a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery site after SRM has performed a failover on an HP LeftHand SAN. This document is intended for customers who are using an HP LeftHand SAN with VMware.
HP OpenCall Media Platform: A Cost-effective, Agile IP Media Server by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.
HP StorageWorks Business Continuity and Availability for Oracle by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2007 - HP offers storage solutions for every aspect of your Oracle driven business to help you solve the challenges of disaster tolerance, backup and recovery.
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 22, 2008 - This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. November 01, 2008 - This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.
IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2008 - This white paper examines data deduplication technologies supported by the latest Storage Solutions from HP. Data deduplication is a hot topic in data protection and therefore, also a relevant topic for HP Data Protector software.
Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 20, 2009 - This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2008 - This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Key Considerations in Building an E-mail Archiving and Compliance Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 01, 2009 - This paper by The Radicati Group examines the issues caused by exploding e-mail growth and presents key capabilities that e-mail archiving solutions must have to help you improve mailbox and e-mail storage management, e-discovery and data protection.
Key Considerations in Building an E-mail Archiving and Compliance Strategy - Webcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 14, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how Brunel University solved their email management challenges of massive email growth, lengthy tape backups and long searches. Discover how to develop an email archiving strategy that automatically captures, preserves and manages all corporate emails for compliance regulations.
Leveraging SUSE Linux Enterprise and HP Platforms for Business-Critical Workload Deployments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - This IDC White Paper takes an in-depth look at the use of Linux as a commercial solution in business-critical environments. It offers a deeper review of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and HP's portfolio of standards-based server solutions.
Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 20, 2009 - The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.
Modernizing Your Legacy AS/400 applications by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 16, 2008 - With recent AS/400 announcements, companies operating on the AS/400 today have a decision to make—rehost, rewrite, or replace. The key thing to remember when migrating your AS/400 application infrastructure is that it is all about delivering the intended business outcome— generating new services to win new customers.
Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 25, 2009 - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Optimizing the Application Testing of Your Siebel CRM Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 2008 - This paper is based on a SearchSoftwareQuality.com presentation, “Optimizing the Application Testing of Your Siebel CRM Environment,” sponsored by HP and Infosys.
Optimizing The Value of Your Subscriber Data by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information.
Performance Center of Excellence by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 27, 2009 - As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE.
Podcast: Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Preparing for e-discovery - The litigator and the information professional responsibilities by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 06, 2009 - This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Backup by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 03, 2009 - In this presentation transcript, Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system.
Presentation Transcript: Virtualization - Growing Your Success in the Data Center to the Desktop by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This podcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization's goals.
Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 07, 2009 - Join HP and VMware, industry leaders in virtualization and infrastructure and application management for this one hour webinar to learn how you can reduce management costs and gain increased visibility and control of your virtual infrastructure.
Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 31, 2009 - This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.
Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 20, 2009 - If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.
ROI on Network Efficiency: Customer Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 17, 2009 - When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did.
Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 21, 2009 - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Stop Retaining Forever, Start Archiving Now by Hewlett-Packard Company
. November 05, 2009 - Learn archiving tips from HP's Manu Chadha that will help you increase application performance and comply with regulatory, governance and e-discovery obligations.
The Business Value of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on HP ProLiant x86 Servers vs. Sun Solaris 10 on Sun Servers by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2009 - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 01, 2009 - This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
The Power of Automation: The EDS Story by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 17, 2009 - It is becoming increasingly difficult for data center pros to manage their IT environments. This webcast explores best practices for automation and details the benefits you can realize from implementing the technology.
Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn't fit everyone by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 01, 2009 - This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.
Unified Communications: Strategic Value, Benefits and the Role of System Integrators by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 29, 2008 - This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 01, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center
helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
Virtualize Your End-to-End IT infrastructure and Reduce OpEx and CapEx by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 21, 2009 - Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.
Why Records Management is important by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 06, 2009 - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2008 - This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
Workload Weighting for Mid-range Storage Array Administrators by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 23, 2009 - This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.
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