HP and Microsoft collaborate on the delivery of cloud services

HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft Corp. has announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver the latter's leading communications and collaboration applications via global private and public cloud services. Under the agreement, HP and Microsoft will offer private and public cloud solutions designed to help organizations rapidly scale new users, shift IT resources from maintenance to innovation and change IT from a capital to operating expense. The solutions include the following:

Private cloud: HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services –Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Real-Time Collaboration deliver Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 productivity applications as a service from HP datacenters around the world

Public cloud: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s Office collaboration and productivity tools, will be delivered by Microsoft through the cloud

Hybrid solution: HP will resell Microsoft Office 365 with HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Real-Time Collaboration

HP and Microsoft engineering resources will collaborate to deploy, support and enhance the new solutions. “Large organizations, particularly those in regulated industries like financial services and public sector, have demanding functionality and service level requirements,” said Brandt Faatz, vice president, Workplace Services, HP Enterprise Services. “HP and Microsoft help meet these needs with a flexible range of global, cost-efficient, cloud-based productivity solutions running on the latest technology.”

Says Mark Hill, vice president, Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft. “This alliance with HP gives customers maximum flexibility to choose a cloud computing solution that meets their organization’s specialized messaging and collaboration needs.” The new solutions enable organizations in their pursuit of an Instant-On Enterprise, which embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.


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