HP announces Microsoft Services operation in India

Rahul Gupta

NEW DELHI: Hewlett Packard (HP) has announced its Microsoft Services

Operation (MSO) in India. The services and support agreement with Microsoft

would enable HP to provide organizations with an ability to deliver computing

environments. HP would also roll out its full range of services and products to

help Indian customers unleash the power of their investments in Microsoft

Technologies.

HP would help enterprises to plan, design, implement and maintain Microsoft

technologies across heterogeneous computing environments. The alliance between

Microsoft and HP would leverage the expertise and experience of the industry's

leading software technology supplier with the industry's major IT product,

services and support provider.

This alliance would also take the initiative to follow the model wherein the

Microsoft Datacenter Server operating system can be purchased pre-loaded with HP

hardware.

Window 2000 datacentre is designed to offer high-end mission critical

solutions and services to Indian enterprises.

HP Asia Pacific MSO general manager Ravi Srinivasan said, "Our team's

mission is to help customers unleash the power of Microsoft technologies

regardless of their hardware environments."

HP is a gold certified partner of Microsoft and this status enables it to

offer support and consulting services to customers using Microsoft technology.

The MSO target customers are organizations who are currently operating in the

Microsoft technology environment and those adopting it.

Asia Microsoft Services Development manager V Srinivasan said, "We are

confident that with HP’s vast experience of mission critical enterprise and

computing expertise can provide reliable end to end Microsoft technology

services for our customers."

He also said that Microsoft has this agreement with HP for all across Asia-

Pacific region, which includes nine countries of this region.