Microsoft, HP link arms in $250 million cloud kumbaya
Posted by brennels on January 25, 2010
By Carl Brooks, Technology Writer
14 Jan 2010 | SearchCloudComputing.com
“HP and Microsoft have announced a $250 million partnership to develop integrated data center products that HP will offer as the HP Private Cloud. It will feature Microsoft’s fledgling data center automation suite, which includes virtualization hypervisor Hyper-V, and dashboard tools designed to help Windows-based data centers shift towards private cloud computing environments.
HP is already providing server hardware for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Platform as a Service business, and the one hundred and fifteen billion-dollar firm said that HP Private Cloud products created under this new agreement will feature built-in integration with Azure services, giving Microsoft a captive audience for its new platform.
“This approach enables customers to integrate private or public cloud computing models as their business requires, and in the future, services built on Microsoft Windows Azure,” said an HP spokesperson.”
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