HP, Alcatel-Lucent Expand Global Alliance - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Hewlett-Packard Co. or HP (HPQ) and Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) announced an expansion of their global alliance to help large organizations and service providers build network-enabled, distributed cloud solutions to create new business opportunities and greater efficiencies. This partnership incorporates selected Alcatel-Lucent IP routing and optical products into HP's existing routing and storage portfolios, allowing organizations to more efficiently leverage the convergence of IT and telecommunications to realize reduced complexity and greater agility.

HP Storage would extend its solutions between datacenters to provide joint HP and Alcatel-Lucent customers with fully validated end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. This would enable customers to improve flexibility within the datacenter and stay agile in deployment, while meeting regulatory, security and compliance challenges. HP Networking is expanding its WAN router portfolio for large organizations with the targeted adoption of selected Alcatel-Lucent Carrier-grade routers.

Alcatel-Lucent, which has comprehensively adopted HP IT technologies and HP supply chain efficiencies, has recently joined as a member of the HP's Early Access Forum for HP Helion, HP's open-source, distributed cloud computing platform based on OpenStack technology.