HP expands its Converged Cloud portfolio

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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that simplify and enhance every aspect of a client’s private cloud journey.

The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative features optimized, preintegrated solutions based on extensive joint technology development, and offers one-stop-shop life cycle sales and support.

While organizations are attracted by the flexibility and financial benefits of cloud, they are struggling with how to get started quickly while addressing risk areas such as data loss, security and vendor lock-in. By providing a clear, proven path along with a single-vendor client experience, HP and Microsoft are greatly simplifying and accelerating the evolution to cloud computing.

The agreement between HP and Microsoft Corp. builds on the HP Converged Cloud strategy to extend the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information, providing customers with choice, confidence and consistency. As the industry’s first strategy and portfolio based on a single open architecture, HP Converged Cloud enables the integration of any combination of private, managed and public cloud, as well as traditional IT.

Anything HP and Microsoft can do to improve the accessibility of cloud as a platform, whether it’s in creating packaged integrated solutions, or migration tools and expertise to the end user community has to be a good thing for the customer and cloud as a platform. Not only does this offer an alternative with existing customers, but the cloud platform creates opportunities to customers that might previously had exposure to these applications and services, creating future opportunities for empowerment and revenue.

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