HP and Alcatel-Lucent expand their global partnership, incorporating selected Alcatel-Lucent IP routing and optical products into HP's existing routing and storage portfolios. HP Storage will extend its solutions between data centers to provide joint HP and Alcatel-Lucent customers with fully validated end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
Both companies have certified long distance synchronous, low-latency replication using HP 3PAR RemoteCopy for distances up to 130 kilometers. The solution components include HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP 3PAR Remote Copy software, HP StoreFabric Storage Networking and Alcatel-Lucent 1830 PSS optical products.
In addition, HP Networking is expanding its WAN router portfolio for large organizations with the targeted adoption of selected Alcatel-Lucent Carrier-grade routers to provide solutions with greater scale needed for transformative WAN solutions by large organizations.
Antonio Neri, senior vice president and general manager, HP enterprise group
HP and Alcatel-Lucent's expanded alliance demonstrates our deep joint commitment to help large organizations and service providers transform and disrupt their respective industries and markets. We do this by taking each other's best-in-class flagship products from our respective IT and networking portfolios, to deliver a unique set of data center and network solutions that reduce complexity, lower OPEX and boost agility to accelerate innovation of new products and services.
Basil Alwan, President Alcatel-Lucent IP Routing and Transport
This expanded alliance with HP allows us to continue doing what we do best -- building networks that help meet our customers' objectives. And it will allow us to leverage the strengths of both companies to increase the value we deliver to those customers. Together, we will continue to innovate and offer large enterprises and service providers the industry's most agile and flexible solutions with the right performance and economics for the cloud era.
