HPE and Microsoft to provide opportunities to partners through Cloud28+

At Microsoft Inspire, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has formed a go-to-market alliance with Microsoft through Cloud28+, the world’s largest, open community dedicated to increasing enterprise cloud adoption. Microsoft joins Cloud28+, an initiative led and sponsored by HPE, as a premier Microsoft Azure Stack technology partner. By becoming a Cloud28+ member, Microsoft will join forces with HPE to provide partners with new business opportunities and tools, while accelerating customer business outcomes powered by a rich hybrid IT ecosystem.

Through Cloud28+, HPE and Microsoft will create a joint Azure Stack ISV onboarding program focussed on connecting software vendors to HPE and Microsoft solution and service providers, helping them to grow their market visibility and develop new revenue streams. In turn, HPE and Microsoft solution and service providers will benefit from dedicated lead generation campaigns and sales enablement activities to bolster their Azure Stack sales. Customers will gain access to an even more comprehensive community and cloud service catalog, allowing them find their own right mix of partners and hybrid IT solutions to match their specific workload, industry and data sovereignty requirements.

The mission of Cloud28+ is to offer customers, regardless of their location, a seamless on- and off-premises experience, based on a common platform of shared resources – services, tailored solutions and knowledge. Cloud28+ continues to develop rapidly since first launching its catalog service in December 2015 and expanding its worldwide community one year later. Today, Cloud28+ counts more than 500 partners – service providers, solution providers, ISVs, distributors, system integrators, universities and public-sector organizations – contributing to a catalog of more than 18,000 build and consume services. Focussed on providing high levels of data sovereignty and customization, Cloud28+ partners offer services out of more than 300 data centers in every region around the world.

“With IT at the core of every business today, Cloud28+ gives all members – whether customers or partners – the opportunity to quickly connect, share knowledge, and innovate together,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Data Center and Hybrid Cloud, HPE India. “It’s a transformation engine around shared values that boosts broader business opportunities for everyone involved.”

Alyssa Fitzpatrick, General Manager, Worldwide Channel Sales, Microsoft Corp., said, “It’s all about choice and trust. By joining Cloud28+, we will help empower customers with market-leading hybrid IT offerings fuelled by partners who know and serve them best. We see Cloud28+ as a real differentiator in terms of helping our customers and partners build their own ecosystems.”

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