Microsoft and HP Deliver on Integration Promise

The two companies announced a series of business intelligence, data warehouse and messaging appliances that will be deployed on HP hardware.

According to Steve Tramack, HP senior engineering manager for ESSN alliances, performance and solutions engineering, the two companies have worked closely to create a series of affordable turnkey appliances that are intended to make Microsoft software more accessible to a broader range of customers who previously would have been challenged by integration issues typically associated with these classes of applications.

Tramack adds that in contrast to other high-end appliances on the market today, the HP offerings are simple enough to be deployed in almost any size organization.

Fausto Ibarra, Microsoft senior director for business intelligence adds that by working with HP, Microsoft expects that the number of IT projects that don’t come to fruition because of deployment challenges will drop considerably, resulting in higher rates of successful IT deployments across the industry.