New Solutions From HP, Microsoft Help Organisations Speed Business Results

HP and Microsoft Corp. have announced a portfolio of four new converged application appliances that fuse applications, infrastructure and productivity tools into a single system. These solutions help organisations optimise employee productivity and decision-making, while simplifying the delivery of applications for IT.

The HP Business Decision Appliance is available now to run Business Intelligence (BI) services, and the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange Server is planned to be available soon to run messaging services. Two other appliances are expected to be available later this year.

Delivering on the companies' extended partnership announced a year ago, the new converged application appliances from HP and Microsoft are designed for IT as well as end users. They deliver application services such as business intelligence, data warehousing, online transaction processing and messaging. The jointly engineered appliances, and related consulting and support services, enable IT to deliver critical business applications in very little time.

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"Customers are looking to significantly reduce implementation and decision times," said Santanu Ghose, Country Head, Converged Infrastructure Solutions, HP India. "With our converged application appliances, HP and Microsoft enable customers to shorten the time required to deliver information, which helps to reduce risk and cost."

"Microsoft and HP are helping IT professionals fight their biggest foes – time and complexity," said Jitesh Shetty, Director – Enterprise Partnership and Industry Solutions, Microsoft India "With these appliances, we're helping to put critical business information in our customers’ hands when they need it."