Microsoft® and HP have been business partners for over 25 years and have a relationship that has its roots in a key factor for both companies: Microsoft runs much of their business on HP servers and storage and HP runs their business on Microsoft software.
Since the very beginnings of Microsoft Exchange Server as a product, HP has been a key Microsoft partner and has made huge investments in the technology. These investments have positioned HP as the premiere provider of platforms, services, and solutions for Exchange.
In addition, HP ProLiant servers are the computer platform of choice by Exchange customers with more than 40% market share.
HP has a unique marketing and engineering relationship with Microsoft. A team of HP software engineers are co-located with Microsoft engineers at the Microsoft Redmond facility, where, we work closely with Microsoft in the testing and debugging of new versions of Exchange Server and other Microsoft products. This helps benefit our customers in that:
- Good engineering level communications provides HP the latest on product development and best practices.
- Our products and solutions are engineered to work out of the box and as early as possible.
- When specific problems are identified our engineers can engage directly with Microsoft engineers
In addition HP provides solutions engineering expertise in performance, characterization, deployment guidelines, best practices, planning and sizing tools, etc. - all available freely from HP ActiveAnswers.
Here are some key proof points for HP/Exchange expertise. Put this expertise to work for you!
- HP Services is designated by Microsoft as ''Global Prime Integrator'' for Exchange Server 2007
- HP has over 19 million Microsoft Exchange Server seats under contract through HP Services; plus over many millions ofseats through HP authorized business partners
- ProLiant servers are the platforms of choice for Exchange with leading market share through highly available, reliable systems based on clustering SAN and DAS technologies
- HP Solutions architects have published several new books and many white papers on Exchange 2007
- HP has enlisted best-of-breed partners to ensure a secure and powerful Exchange environment
- Continuing investment in engineering resources to expand the existing messaging framework - by adding voice, collaboration, and wireless applications.
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