HP and Microsoft will invest $250 million (€172m)on jointly building out new cloud services platforms over the next three years.
The two IT firms say they will build out a new "infrastructure-to-application" model for data centers and enterprises based on tighter integration of their software.
"This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to date — from infrastructure to application — and is intended to substantially improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing IT environments," they said.
HP and Microsoft are promising pre-packaged applications, virtualization solutions and integrated management tools.
Under the partnership, the pair will optimize software such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL server for a "machine environment", while key HP business apps such as Business Insight will be integrated with Microsoft System Center and Hyper V-Server.
“This collaboration will allow HP and Microsoft to offer our customers transformative technology that will reduce costs, generate business growth and accelerate innovation," said HP CEO Mark Hurd.
The two IT firms say they will build out a new "infrastructure-to-application" model for data centers and enterprises based on tighter integration of their software.
"This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to date — from infrastructure to application — and is intended to substantially improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing IT environments," they said.
HP and Microsoft are promising pre-packaged applications, virtualization solutions and integrated management tools.
Under the partnership, the pair will optimize software such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL server for a "machine environment", while key HP business apps such as Business Insight will be integrated with Microsoft System Center and Hyper V-Server.
“This collaboration will allow HP and Microsoft to offer our customers transformative technology that will reduce costs, generate business growth and accelerate innovation," said HP CEO Mark Hurd.