HP Delivers New Technology and Services Portfolio Designed for Growing Service Provider Market

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 10, 2015) - HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced a new portfolio designed specifically for the needs of service providers to create differentiated services, increase speed and agility, and drive business growth.

According to IDC, a majority of organizations will stop managing their own infrastructure over the next five years. Instead, these organizations will make greater use of dedicated and shared cloud offerings in service provider data centers.¹ To capitalize on these changes, service providers -- software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, telco/communication service providers, managed hosters, and consumer service providers -- need an efficient infrastructure that is highly scalable and supports business growth. They also need flexible business models that better align costs to revenue. Additionally, they need to be able to address customers' increasing expectations for service level agreements. 

HP's new workload-optimized solutions, flexible business models and partnerships help service providers launch differentiated services faster in the market and stay competitive. 

"Service providers must adjust to meet ever-increasing customer demands for simplicity, security and availability -- they can no longer compete on cost alone," said Antonio Neri, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Group, HP. "HP is delivering systems, built on open-design principles, combined with services and solutions that allow service providers to move fast, launch new services and grow their business in a sustainable way."

Create differentiated services
HP innovative portfolio includes servers, networking and Service Provider Ready solutions to help service providers create differentiated services.

HP offers a range of servers that can meet the unique compute requirements of service providers. The new HP Cloudline server family, which is a result of the HP-Foxconn joint venture, is a portfolio of basic, cost-focused and customizable compute platforms that offer capacity on demand, flexible operations and low costs. Built on open-design principles, HP Cloudline servers support open management tools and leverage common industry interfaces in hardware and firmware. HP Cloudline servers support delivery, deployment and management at an extreme scale and fit easily into multi-vendor environments.