HP 6360t White Paper

HP BIOS

FEATURES THAT ARE BUILT IN, NOT BOLTED ON

TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT

HP PROFESSIONAL INNOVATIONS FOR BUSINESS NOTEBOOKS AND DESKTOPS

THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE

Today’s professionals are looking for more than a collection of disparate software and firmware pieces to
drive their computing experience. They are looking for tightly integrated solutions that will provide them with
the ease of use they demand along with the features they need. HP is committed to delivering this type of
experience in our HP Business Desktop and Notebook PCs.

Developing highly integrated solutions requires expertise and a clear vision for providing real-world value
and enhancing the overall user experience. With the amount of data that most information workers are
receiving each day, it’s unacceptable to require users to take additional unnecessary steps in order to use
their PCs in a secure and connected manner.

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HP BIOS was designed to work seamlessly with HP Professional Innovations like HP ProtectTools

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Manager, HP Power Assistant,

Device Access Manager and other HP software.

Security

HP has been developing its BIOS for three decades. The HP BIOS team works closely with key partners such

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as AMD, Intel

, LANDesk, Microsoft® and Novell along other internal HP software teams. These partnerships
have allowed HP to manage the support of new technologies, provide tight integration with software
components and effectively respond to customer needs.

USE CASE 1: Manageability

Bill is an IT manager at a company with approximately 500 employees. To keep maintenance costs in check, the company
implemented policies that keep software and firmware configurations consistent across the company. Managing BIOS settings
remotely had previously been a challenge. Each system had unique ways to manage these settings, which required a lot of extra
work for the IT staff. However, with the HP Client Management Interface and LANDesk Management Suite, Bill was able to take
advantage of a consistent interface across the HP desktops, notebooks, workstations, retail platforms and signage players in his
environment. With a few clicks, he is able to configure all BIOS components on all machines such as setting the machine boot
order, changing the availability of USB ports, setting the asset tag or even changing the BIOS password remotely.