HP and Microsoft have announced a four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration applications via global private and public cloud services.
The partnership aims to support enterprises and government, with a range of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions.
Private cloud solutions feature HP’s Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration to deliver Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010 productivity applications as a service from HP data centres around the world.
Public cloud solutions feature Microsoft’s Office 365 and Office collaboration and productivity tools that will be delivered via the cloud.
In a hybrid solution, HP will resell Office 365 with it’s own Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration.
HP and Microsoft engineering resources will collaborate to deploy, support and enhance the solutions.