HPE introduces new age services and solutions for its partners

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HPE’s Partner Ready program is expanding to deliver additional resources to partners of all sizes and specialties, including: the integration of competencies designed to help partners capture additional market share, a revamped Partner Ready Service Provider (PRSP) Program, as well as an updated suite of ready-made partner marketing resources

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced, from its 2016 Global Partner Conference (GPC), new offerings and expanded resources specifically designed to help channel partners navigate and accelerate their growth in a highly dynamic technology landscape.

HPE’s Partner Ready program is expanding to deliver additional resources to partners of all sizes and specialties, including: the integration of competencies designed to help partners capture additional market share, a revamped Partner Ready Service Provider (PRSP) Program, as well as an updated suite of ready-made partner marketing resources.

“As we work to build and deploy the platforms and tools that accelerate global enterprises, we must work in unison with our partners to move our businesses further, faster,” said aid Neelam Dhawan, VP & GM, Enterprise Group and Managing Director India, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

In addition to the strategic expansion of the Partner Ready program, HPE introduced updated hardware and services designed to deliver on the promise of enterprise mobility. These innovative builds cross HPE product lines, including cloud, storage, hyper-converged computing and more.

“HPE can anticipate and respond to the rapid and dynamic changes happening in the IT space faster than anyone because our solutions are powering this seismic shift at the enterprise level,” said Barun Lala, Director, Indirect Sales, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India.

These launches are in direct response to HPE and its partners’ perspectives on the shifting IT channel landscape, which is rapidly reorienting to accommodate the growth of services-led solutions. Here are a few highlights of new products and solutions:

HPE has dramatically expanded the breadth of on-demand marketing resources available to partners of all levels, addressing the needs of both traditional and new media marketing. New industry-leading resources include a social media center, a marketing concierge service, content syndications tools, marketing training tools and webinars.

HPE Partner Ready Social Media Center: Contains images, thought leadership pieces, infographics, You Tube videos, White Papers and other social media assets.

Marketing Concierge Service: Provides email or chat support, 24 hours a day, 5 days per week with support in up to 22 languages.

HPE Partner Ready IT Investment Online Tools

HPE Financial Services has announced the Partner Connection API, a plug-and-play interface that integrates directly into a partner’s online portal environment. Partners can select from a variety of functional interfaces to help their customers choose how they want to acquire, pay for and consume technology. The online calculator provides end-user customers with a quick quote for an HPE solution (hardware, software, and services), embedded quote for a ready-made integrated HPE and partner solution, and CRM tool to custom-design an integrated HPE and partner solution.

Increased Growth Opportunities with Expanded Enterprise Mobility

HPE is introducing numerous product enhancements that aim to prepare enterprise network users and data centers for the demands of the future today. Viewed collectively, these expanded solutions deliver the speed, agility and power enterprises will require, alongside the profitability and reliability partners expect of HPE.

HPE Flexible Capacity

HPE Flexible Capacity is expanding to provide even more opportunities to partners looking to use this unique IT ownership experience as an engine for growth.

HC 380 Rapid Bundles for the Channel

HPE is announcing an expansion of Hyper Converged 380 offerings for channel partners. These rapid bundles consist of hardware, support and startup services all tied together, providing customers the ability to order customized virtualization, cloud and VDI workloads all in five clicks or less.

Extending HPE Flash and Software-Defined Storage to SMB

HPE is significantly expanding the reach of its entry storage portfolio to help SMBs modernize and accelerate their IT systems with the introduction of the new HPE StoreVirtual 3200 and HPE MSA 2042 storage systems. These latest innovations give partners an easy way to help their customers start small and grow without disruption while eliminating technology dead ends.

Docker Ready Server

As part of HPE’s partnership with Docker, Inc., the industry’s first HPE Docker ready Server is now available. The HPE pre-configured server platforms are ready for Docker Engines. The server models include the HPE ProLiant DL360, DL380 and BL460. The servers will be delivered ready for container environments, greater infrastructure optimization, improved time-to-application performance and supported by HPE Technical Services and backed by Docker.

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