{"id":15996,"date":"2015-07-17T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T10:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230421"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T10:07:55","slug":"hp-centurylink-buddy-up-on-hybrid-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hp-centurylink-buddy-up-on-hybrid-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"HP, CenturyLink buddy-up on hybrid cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_149332\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/07\/Partnership.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/07\/Partnership.jpg\" alt=\"CenturyLink and HP are partnering on hybrid cloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CenturyLink and HP are partnering on hybrid cloud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>HP and CenturyLink announced a deal this week that will see HP resell CenturyLink\u2019s cloud services to its partners as part of the HP PartnerOne programme.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal HP customers will have access to the full range of CenturyLink services, which are built using HP technology, including managed hosting, colocation, storage, big data and cloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCenturyLink solutions, powered by HP, provide compelling value for organizations seeking hybrid IT solutions,\u201d said James Parker, senior vice president, partner, financial and international, at CenturyLink. \u201cCenturyLink complements the HP portfolio with a breadth of hybrid solutions for enterprises, offering customers the ability to choose the services that make the most sense today, while retaining the flexibility to evolve as business demands shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HP said the move will help CenturyLink expand its reach new customers, with HP exploiting new opportunities to build hybrid cloud solutions for existing customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs businesses map out a path to the cloud, they need flexibility in how they consume and leverage IT services,\u201d said Eric Koach, vice president of sales, Enterprise Group, central region, HP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHP cloud, software and infrastructure solutions help CenturyLink and HP enable clients to build, manage and secure a cloud environment aligned with their strategy, across infrastructure, information and critical applications,\u201d Koach said.<\/p>\n<p>Since splitting up HP has bifurcated its partner programmes into the PartnerOne programme for service providers and the Helion PartnerOne programme, the latter of which largely includes services providers building solutions on top of OpenStack or Cloud Foundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP and CenturyLink announced a deal this week that will see HP resell CenturyLink&rsquo;s cloud services to its partners as part of the HP PartnerOne programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2016,2172,3004,573,1993,3005,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centurylink","category-channel","category-eric-koach","category-hp","category-infrastructure-as-a-service","category-james-parker","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}