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HPE and Commvault Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Deliver Industry-Leading Cyber Resilience Solutions
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HPE Discover 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced an expanded strategic partnership to combat the increasing challenges of cyber threats and data loss. Building on a longstanding collaboration across GreenLake cloud and the Commvault Cloud platform, the enhanced partnership deepens technology integration and joint go-to-market to deliver advanced cyber resilience, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities for enterprise hybrid cloud environments. In addition to its own robust offerings, Commvault will integrate and offer HPE Zerto Software to support Commvault Cloud customers in managing demanding virtualized on-premises and cloud workloads. Leveraging sophisticated Continuous Data Protection technology, HPE Zerto delivers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) ensuring operational resilience. Adding HPE Zerto capabilities to Commvault Cloud gives customers added flexibility to tailor their cyber resilience and disaster recovery strategy to meet the needs of their business. 'The expanded partnership with Commvault underscores our shared commitment to solve the most complex data protection challenges that enterprises face,' said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud and CTO at HPE. 'Our combined innovations set a new standard for data resilience, helping customers navigate a rapidly evolving threat landscape.' Sanjay Mirchandani, president and CEO of Commvault, added, 'This partnership builds on the long history of co-innovation between Commvault and HPE. At a time when data is more valuable and vulnerable than ever, our collaboration is empowering customers to keep their business continuous by advancing their resilience and protection of hybrid workloads.' The companies are also introducing enhanced integration between the HPE storage and data protection and Commvault Cloud portfolios to safeguard sensitive data, protect against ransomware, and ensure seamless recovery from disruptions. For HPE customers seeking a turnkey cloud-based solution that provides robust protection of hybrid, cloud-native, and SaaS workloads, Commvault Cloud SaaS is an integral part of the joint portfolio that spans from edge-to-cloud and source-to-target. Addressing Cyber Threats with Enhanced Solutions Ransomware, AI-driven attacks, and other cyber threats are compelling enterprises to prioritize cyber resilience as a critical component of their data protection strategies. As part of the expanded partnership, HPE and Commvault intend to introduce key joint innovations to neutralize the evolving threat landscape: Ultra Resilience: The combination of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with built-in ransomware detection and snapshot immutability, HPE Cyber Resilience Vault with air-gapped protection, and Commvault Cloud AI-enhanced anomaly detection and threat scanning provides unmatched resilience and peace of mind. Fast, Clean Recovery: The integration of HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 featuring data protection accelerator nodes with Commvault Cloud enables enterprises to return to operation safely and rapidly after an incident. It brings together blazing fast storage, typical 20-to-1 data reduction, and the broadest protection across hybrid cloud workloads. Geographic Protection: Commvault Cloud seamlessly orchestrates simultaneous snapshots and local backups for two synchronously replicated HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays, located in different geographical regions. This integration significantly streamlines data protection workflows and delivers unparalleled recoverability for critical enterprise data. Building on an Established Portfolio This partnership is based on deep collaboration and innovation to help enterprises modernize their data protection strategies, including integrations with HPE StoreOnce backup appliances and HPE Storage Tape solutions for highly cost-effective, long-term data retention, as well as advanced image-based protection for virtualized environments through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software. Together, HPE and Commvault are delivering an expansive suite of solutions that tackle data protection and cyber resilience challenges head-on, at every stage of the enterprise data lifecycle. The expertise of the two companies helps customers minimize risk, modernize infrastructure, and achieve operational continuity in the most complex hybrid and multicloud environments. Additional Resources HPE Zerto Software Commvault Cloud HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 About HPE HPE (NYSE: HPE) is a global technology leader focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly. The company innovates across networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: About Commvault Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.
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12 hours ago
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HPE and Veeam Deepen Strategic Partnership to Deliver Superior Data Resiliency and Recovery
Veeam to provide image-based backup support for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software including VM migration and data portability from traditional hypervisor environments LAS VEGAS, June 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HPE Discover 2025 -- HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Veeam® Software, the #1 global leader by market share in data resilience, today announced that the two companies are furthering their long-term, strategic relationship with a new collaboration to offer customers comprehensive data backup and resilience solutions. Veeam Data Platform will integrate with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software to give customers a simplified and unified way to protect modern applications and data. "Data is an organization's most valuable asset – and often its most vulnerable," said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president of hybrid cloud and CTO of HPE. "With our deep partnership and integration, HPE and Veeam are delivering unified virtualization and data protection that is future-ready, giving customers the resiliency and agility to evolve their hybrid IT strategy." "Organizations face a perfect storm of IT complexity and cyber threats. Data resilience can no longer be an afterthought," said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. "Our enhanced partnership ensures organizations can deploy enterprise-grade virtualization solutions from HPE with Veeam backup, recovery, security and intelligence for maximum data resilience that keeps businesses running." The powerful combination of Veeam Data Platform, HPE Morpheus Software and HPE Zerto Software—backed by increased joint go-to-market investment—enables customer data protection success. Veeam to deliver image-based backup for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software: Veeam will deliver their industry-leading VM data resilience capabilities to VM Essentials with full fidelity Veeam Data Platform image-based backup support in the near term. Whether running HPE Private Cloud solutions or standalone servers with Veeam and VM Essentials, customers can take advantage of seamless, unified multi-hypervisor protection and VM mobility, as well as up to 90 percent reduction in VM license costs. Comprehensive protection for containerized and cloud-native workloads: In addition to deep Veeam Data Platform integration with VM Essentials and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software, Veeam Kasten provides leading backup and recovery for containerized and cloud-native workloads. Together, these solutions enable organizations to manage and protect bare metal, virtualized, and containerized workloads. HPE and Veeam introduce global framework for modern data resilience HPE and Veeam also announced "Data Resilience by Design," a new joint framework that empowers enterprise customers to adopt a holistic, proactive approach to data security and availability. The framework includes HPE cybersecurity and cyber resilience transformation and readiness services. These services provide organizations with a comprehensive roadmap and strategies to assess, strengthen, and future-proof their data resilience posture. By leveraging this framework, enterprises can effectively address the growing security threats and challenges in today's landscape, ensuring robust data protection and resilience across their private and hybrid cloud environments. With this deeper strategic partnership, HPE and Veeam are empowering organizations to unlock the full potential of their private cloud environments while ensuring their most critical asset – data – is secure, resilient, and available. Together, the two companies are equipping enterprises with the tools and confidence to thrive in an era of heightened cyber threats and IT complexity. Additional Resources HPE and Veeam partnership overview HPE Morpheus Software HPE Zerto Software HPE Cybersecurity Services Veeam Data Platform About HPE HPE (NYSE: HPE) is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at About Veeam Software Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we're obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it. Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 67% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Sanah Sign in to access your portfolio
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12 hours ago
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HPE and Commvault Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Deliver Industry-Leading Cyber Resilience Solutions
Commvault Cloud and HPE's storage and data protection portfolio provide comprehensive enterprise-grade protection against cyber threats and data loss LAS VEGAS, June 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HPE Discover 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced an expanded strategic partnership to combat the increasing challenges of cyber threats and data loss. Building on a longstanding collaboration across GreenLake cloud and the Commvault Cloud platform, the enhanced partnership deepens technology integration and joint go-to-market to deliver advanced cyber resilience, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities for enterprise hybrid cloud environments. In addition to its own robust offerings, Commvault will integrate and offer HPE Zerto Software to support Commvault Cloud customers in managing demanding virtualized on-premises and cloud workloads. Leveraging sophisticated Continuous Data Protection technology, HPE Zerto delivers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) ensuring operational resilience. Adding HPE Zerto capabilities to Commvault Cloud gives customers added flexibility to tailor their cyber resilience and disaster recovery strategy to meet the needs of their business. "The expanded partnership with Commvault underscores our shared commitment to solve the most complex data protection challenges that enterprises face," said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud and CTO at HPE. "Our combined innovations set a new standard for data resilience, helping customers navigate a rapidly evolving threat landscape." Sanjay Mirchandani, president and CEO of Commvault, added, "This partnership builds on the long history of co-innovation between Commvault and HPE. At a time when data is more valuable and vulnerable than ever, our collaboration is empowering customers to keep their business continuous by advancing their resilience and protection of hybrid workloads." The companies are also introducing enhanced integration between the HPE storage and data protection and Commvault Cloud portfolios to safeguard sensitive data, protect against ransomware, and ensure seamless recovery from disruptions. For HPE customers seeking a turnkey cloud-based solution that provides robust protection of hybrid, cloud-native, and SaaS workloads, Commvault Cloud SaaS is an integral part of the joint portfolio that spans from edge-to-cloud and source-to-target. Addressing Cyber Threats with Enhanced Solutions Ransomware, AI-driven attacks, and other cyber threats are compelling enterprises to prioritize cyber resilience as a critical component of their data protection strategies. As part of the expanded partnership, HPE and Commvault intend to introduce key joint innovations to neutralize the evolving threat landscape: Ultra Resilience: The combination of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with built-in ransomware detection and snapshot immutability, HPE Cyber Resilience Vault with air-gapped protection, and Commvault Cloud AI-enhanced anomaly detection and threat scanning provides unmatched resilience and peace of mind. Fast, Clean Recovery: The integration of HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 featuring data protection accelerator nodes with Commvault Cloud enables enterprises to return to operation safely and rapidly after an incident. It brings together blazing fast storage, typical 20-to-1 data reduction, and the broadest protection across hybrid cloud workloads. Geographic Protection: Commvault Cloud seamlessly orchestrates simultaneous snapshots and local backups for two synchronously replicated HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays, located in different geographical regions. This integration significantly streamlines data protection workflows and delivers unparalleled recoverability for critical enterprise data. Building on an Established Portfolio This partnership is based on deep collaboration and innovation to help enterprises modernize their data protection strategies, including integrations with HPE StoreOnce backup appliances and HPE Storage Tape solutions for highly cost-effective, long-term data retention, as well as advanced image-based protection for virtualized environments through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software. Together, HPE and Commvault are delivering an expansive suite of solutions that tackle data protection and cyber resilience challenges head-on, at every stage of the enterprise data lifecycle. The expertise of the two companies helps customers minimize risk, modernize infrastructure, and achieve operational continuity in the most complex hybrid and multicloud environments. Additional Resources HPE Zerto Software Commvault Cloud HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 About HPE HPE (NYSE: HPE) is a global technology leader focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly. The company innovates across networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: About Commvault Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Victor O' Kevin Komiegakkomiega@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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HPE Unveils Unified Program to Power up Profitable Growth for Partners
Unified Partner Ready Vantage program equips partners to resell across the full HPE portfolio and rapidly build expertise and services through expanded enablement. Partners gain full access to resell HPE's complete portfolio—compute, storage, and networking—through a single program. Enhanced incentives recognize and reward partners who drive value across the entire HPE ecosystem. Partners can grow their services business under their own brand, the HPE brand, or both—maximizing revenue potential. A modular enablement framework and expanded competencies accelerate partner readiness in private cloud, GreenLake Flex, hybrid cloud ops, and SASE. Easy enrollment and a unified experience across Build, Sell, and Service Tracks simplify how all partners engage and grow with HPE. LAS VEGAS, June 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HPE Discover 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced a single, unified partner program consolidating existing programs to enhance partner experiences across the entire HPE portfolio. All programs will combine under HPE Partner Ready Vantage, including HPE Partner Ready and HPE Partner Ready for Networking, to offer simplified enrollment, flexible participation, and comprehensive support through various program tracks. The unified program will roll out in phases, beginning with an initial launch on November 1. The design of HPE Partner Ready Vantage reflects partner input and the best practices of HPE's award-winning programs, equipping partners to build their expertise as deep or as broad as they need while delivering exceptional customer outcomes. The program supports every partner, from solution providers and managed service providers to systems integrators, independent software vendors, and beyond with an industry-leading approach to increase growth opportunities across the HPE portfolio. HPE Partner Ready Vantage is simple, with one program framework, a single compensation model, and a consistent experience. The program offers flexibility so partners can choose the relevant centers and competencies that will support their business goals and differentiation. Partners can focus on: Developing or integrating solutions Reselling consumption solutions or the HPE technologies and services Delivering other services under their own brand, the HPE brand, or both "The new, unified HPE Partner Ready Vantage reflects our commitment to empowering partners and making it easier for them to differentiate with customers and grow their businesses," said Simon Ewington, senior vice president of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem at HPE. "This new program is simple, flexible and relevant, accelerating partners' ability to engage with us, and deliver innovative solutions and services that provide brilliant results for their end customers." As part of the unified HPE Partner Ready Vantage Sell Track, partners can now easily resell the entire HPE portfolio of products and services in both operational expenditures (opex) via HPE GreenLake Flex solutions, and capital expenditures (capex) models through one program membership. Partners can choose where they want to focus and effectively drive growth in discrete technology areas like Compute, Hybrid Cloud and Networking, each having a dedicated center in the Sell Track. At the same time, partners can flexibly cross-sell across the full solutions portfolio, opening new growth opportunities. Partners obtain core product training and certifications based on requirements in each center, and through optional competencies can develop specialized expertise in areas like Private Cloud, HPE GreenLake Flex, Hybrid Cloud Operations and SASE to differentiate themselves in the market. Partner enablement is at the forefront to deliver on HPE's customer first, partner centric commitment by ensuring partners have the training, certifications, competencies and tools to continually develop and enhance their capabilities, giving customers the assurance they are working with the most qualified partners to meet their needs. New competencies and certifications give partners access to adjacent markets to pursue new business areas and enable them to drive outstanding customer outcomes and helps promote and differentiate HPE partners in the market. New and updated competencies and certifications are: HPE Solutions for AI competency verifies that partners can describe, size, quote, design, and configure HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA technologies based on customers' AI requirements. HPE Solutions for Sovereign Cloud competency helps partners understand the benefits of digital sovereignty and recognize the importance of regulatory compliance and security in operating sovereign environments and handling sensitive data. Partners become experts in the components and benefits of the HPE Sovereign Cloud reference architecture. HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software certification allows partners to expand their skills with the VM Essentials continuous learning badge and the HPE Product Certified – VM Essentials certification. These activities also offer a way for partners to achieve both Private Cloud solutions and Hybrid Cloud solutions competencies. HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G competency provides partners with expertise in developing solutions that streamline private cellular and integrate it with Wi-Fi. As an example, HPE GreenLake Flex is fully integrated within the Sell Track, Hybrid Cloud Center, and is available to resell in an as-a-service business model. Additionally, competencies are available for partners who want to specialize in driving as-a-service business based on HPE GreenLake Flex which is an opportunity for small to mid-size partners given the strong momentum in the market for this solution. In addition to the unified partner program under Partner Ready Vantage, HPE is also announcing: HPE CloudPhysics Plus and new assessment and migration tools empower partners in modernizing and optimizing IT estates Expanded AI opportunities help more partners establish AI practices for long-term growth New HPEFS financing option available to partners for HPE Private Cloud AI developer system HPE Smart Choice offers ready-to-go data center solutions, opening significant opportunity for partners to serve SMB and mid-market customers Turnkey solutions allow partners to assess multicloud, multi-vendor infrastructure, make recommendations and easily migrate workloads The new HPE CloudPhysics Plus assessment tool allows partners to provide intelligent recommendations for helping customers optimize their IT across on-premises, multicloud, and cloud-native environments – including Hyper-V, bare metal, Kubernetes, and public cloud environments. HPE CloudPhysics Plus will be available for free in the fourth quarter of FY2025. Partners can sign up through GreenLake cloud. The rapid migration tool enables partners to deliver high-value services such as workload assessments, tailored recommendations, and seamless migrations for their customers. The tool currently supports several migrations, with the new capability of migration to VM Essentials available in July. In combination with the virtualization alternative assessment tool, the rapid migration tool performs a comprehensive migration feasibility analysis and delivers insights to optimize and modernize environments. The rapid migration tool is available for free to partners enrolled in the HPE Partner Ready Vantage Professional Services center. AI Focus partners and learning opportunities expansion allows more partners to build and scale AI practice Initially launched in 2024 as part of the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio, HPE is expanding AI Focus partners' reach to 20 additional countries, including targeting untapped regions and markets through distribution partners. AI Focus partners equips partners with essential tools and support to build and scale their AI practices effectively. More partners will have access to AI readiness assessments, accelerated enablement, and co-investments to drive demand generation, support building their AI practice, or accelerate deals. Additionally, HPE has designed a comprehensive set of learning opportunities and workshops to further equip partners with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to grow their AI practices and drive their business forward. Partners will gain access to HPE technologies, tools, and technical expertise to learn and practice configuring, demonstrating, and troubleshooting in real-world scenarios. AI Acceleration Workshops have been updated to include strategies for building an AI practice and include insights into the latest AI trends and opportunities such as agentic AI and physical AI. NVIDIA will be integrated into the AI acceleration workshops including access to NVIDIA subject-matter experts and resources for AI practice building. These workshops will continue to follow the standard AI practice-building framework with the customization needed to suit partners' specific business models and needs. HPE Financial Services extends partner financing option on HPE Private Cloud AI developer system For a limited time, HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is offering partners a reduced-rate financing option on the HPE Private Cloud developer system which allows them to spread the total cost over 36 months. HPE Private Cloud AI developer system delivers an instant AI development environment providing everything a developer needs to prove and scale AI workloads. This offer enables partners to showcase the system's versatility to customers without incurring significant upfront purchase costs. HPEFS also supports partners through a variety of limited-time programs that they can offer to their customers. These programs can help partners reduce or defer payments on a variety of technologies. HPE Smart Choice program streamlines SMB and mid-market data center opportunities for partners HPE Smart Choice is now globally available exclusively through the channel, providing partners with ready-to-go data center solutions targeting small and medium business (SMB) and mid-market customers. With fixed pricing, curated SKUs, and structured ordering processes, HPE Smart Choice simplifies the purchasing process and results in faster sales cycles and improved alignment with customer buying patterns. Partners also benefit from comprehensive training and promotional assets to help position and sell HPE Smart Choice effectively. The program currently includes top-selling configurations from HPE ProLiant Compute servers, HPE MSA and tape storage systems, along with HPE Tech Care Services. HPE Smart Choice is expanding with the addition of HPE Compute Ops Management (COM) and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, enabling partners to deliver even more complete and competitive solutions to their customers. "Preconfigured options are exactly what our online customers are looking for - solutions that are easy to understand, ready to deploy, and available for fast shipping," said Kevin Samuels, director of E-Commerce Brand and Content Management at BlueAlly. "These Smart Choice SKUs allow us to fulfill and process orders quickly, getting the product into the hands of customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. That speed and simplicity make a big difference in today's competitive online marketplace, where expectations around convenience and delivery are higher than ever." About HPE HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at Financing and service offerings available through Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "HPFSC") in certain countries and is subject to credit approval and execution of standard HPFSC documentation. Rates and terms are based on customer's credit rating, offering types, services and/or equipment type and options. Not all customers may qualify. Not all services or offers are available in all countries. Other restrictions may apply. HPFSC reserves the right to change or cancel this program at any time without notice. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Kari Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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HPE Unveils Unified Program to Power up Profitable Growth for Partners
Unified Partner Ready Vantage program equips partners to resell across the full HPE portfolio and rapidly build expertise and services through expanded enablement. Partners gain full access to resell HPE's complete portfolio—compute, storage, and networking—through a single program. Enhanced incentives recognize and reward partners who drive value across the entire HPE ecosystem. Partners can grow their services business under their own brand, the HPE brand, or both—maximizing revenue potential. A modular enablement framework and expanded competencies accelerate partner readiness in private cloud, GreenLake Flex, hybrid cloud ops, and SASE. Easy enrollment and a unified experience across Build, Sell, and Service Tracks simplify how all partners engage and grow with HPE. LAS VEGAS, June 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HPE Discover 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced a single, unified partner program consolidating existing programs to enhance partner experiences across the entire HPE portfolio. All programs will combine under HPE Partner Ready Vantage, including HPE Partner Ready and HPE Partner Ready for Networking, to offer simplified enrollment, flexible participation, and comprehensive support through various program tracks. The unified program will roll out in phases, beginning with an initial launch on November 1. The design of HPE Partner Ready Vantage reflects partner input and the best practices of HPE's award-winning programs, equipping partners to build their expertise as deep or as broad as they need while delivering exceptional customer outcomes. The program supports every partner, from solution providers and managed service providers to systems integrators, independent software vendors, and beyond with an industry-leading approach to increase growth opportunities across the HPE portfolio. HPE Partner Ready Vantage is simple, with one program framework, a single compensation model, and a consistent experience. The program offers flexibility so partners can choose the relevant centers and competencies that will support their business goals and differentiation. Partners can focus on: Developing or integrating solutions Reselling consumption solutions or the HPE technologies and services Delivering other services under their own brand, the HPE brand, or both "The new, unified HPE Partner Ready Vantage reflects our commitment to empowering partners and making it easier for them to differentiate with customers and grow their businesses," said Simon Ewington, senior vice president of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem at HPE. "This new program is simple, flexible and relevant, accelerating partners' ability to engage with us, and deliver innovative solutions and services that provide brilliant results for their end customers." As part of the unified HPE Partner Ready Vantage Sell Track, partners can now easily resell the entire HPE portfolio of products and services in both operational expenditures (opex) via HPE GreenLake Flex solutions, and capital expenditures (capex) models through one program membership. Partners can choose where they want to focus and effectively drive growth in discrete technology areas like Compute, Hybrid Cloud and Networking, each having a dedicated center in the Sell Track. At the same time, partners can flexibly cross-sell across the full solutions portfolio, opening new growth opportunities. Partners obtain core product training and certifications based on requirements in each center, and through optional competencies can develop specialized expertise in areas like Private Cloud, HPE GreenLake Flex, Hybrid Cloud Operations and SASE to differentiate themselves in the market. Partner enablement is at the forefront to deliver on HPE's customer first, partner centric commitment by ensuring partners have the training, certifications, competencies and tools to continually develop and enhance their capabilities, giving customers the assurance they are working with the most qualified partners to meet their needs. New competencies and certifications give partners access to adjacent markets to pursue new business areas and enable them to drive outstanding customer outcomes and helps promote and differentiate HPE partners in the market. New and updated competencies and certifications are: HPE Solutions for AI competency verifies that partners can describe, size, quote, design, and configure HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA technologies based on customers' AI requirements. HPE Solutions for Sovereign Cloud competency helps partners understand the benefits of digital sovereignty and recognize the importance of regulatory compliance and security in operating sovereign environments and handling sensitive data. Partners become experts in the components and benefits of the HPE Sovereign Cloud reference architecture. HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software certification allows partners to expand their skills with the VM Essentials continuous learning badge and the HPE Product Certified – VM Essentials certification. These activities also offer a way for partners to achieve both Private Cloud solutions and Hybrid Cloud solutions competencies. HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G competency provides partners with expertise in developing solutions that streamline private cellular and integrate it with Wi-Fi. As an example, HPE GreenLake Flex is fully integrated within the Sell Track, Hybrid Cloud Center, and is available to resell in an as-a-service business model. Additionally, competencies are available for partners who want to specialize in driving as-a-service business based on HPE GreenLake Flex which is an opportunity for small to mid-size partners given the strong momentum in the market for this solution. In addition to the unified partner program under Partner Ready Vantage, HPE is also announcing: HPE CloudPhysics Plus and new assessment and migration tools empower partners in modernizing and optimizing IT estates Expanded AI opportunities help more partners establish AI practices for long-term growth New HPEFS financing option available to partners for HPE Private Cloud AI developer system HPE Smart Choice offers ready-to-go data center solutions, opening significant opportunity for partners to serve SMB and mid-market customers Turnkey solutions allow partners to assess multicloud, multi-vendor infrastructure, make recommendations and easily migrate workloads The new HPE CloudPhysics Plus assessment tool allows partners to provide intelligent recommendations for helping customers optimize their IT across on-premises, multicloud, and cloud-native environments – including Hyper-V, bare metal, Kubernetes, and public cloud environments. HPE CloudPhysics Plus will be available for free in the fourth quarter of FY2025. Partners can sign up through GreenLake cloud. The rapid migration tool enables partners to deliver high-value services such as workload assessments, tailored recommendations, and seamless migrations for their customers. The tool currently supports several migrations, with the new capability of migration to VM Essentials available in July. In combination with the virtualization alternative assessment tool, the rapid migration tool performs a comprehensive migration feasibility analysis and delivers insights to optimize and modernize environments. The rapid migration tool is available for free to partners enrolled in the HPE Partner Ready Vantage Professional Services center. AI Focus partners and learning opportunities expansion allows more partners to build and scale AI practice Initially launched in 2024 as part of the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio, HPE is expanding AI Focus partners' reach to 20 additional countries, including targeting untapped regions and markets through distribution partners. AI Focus partners equips partners with essential tools and support to build and scale their AI practices effectively. More partners will have access to AI readiness assessments, accelerated enablement, and co-investments to drive demand generation, support building their AI practice, or accelerate deals. Additionally, HPE has designed a comprehensive set of learning opportunities and workshops to further equip partners with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to grow their AI practices and drive their business forward. Partners will gain access to HPE technologies, tools, and technical expertise to learn and practice configuring, demonstrating, and troubleshooting in real-world scenarios. AI Acceleration Workshops have been updated to include strategies for building an AI practice and include insights into the latest AI trends and opportunities such as agentic AI and physical AI. NVIDIA will be integrated into the AI acceleration workshops including access to NVIDIA subject-matter experts and resources for AI practice building. These workshops will continue to follow the standard AI practice-building framework with the customization needed to suit partners' specific business models and needs. HPE Financial Services extends partner financing option on HPE Private Cloud AI developer system For a limited time, HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is offering partners a reduced-rate financing option on the HPE Private Cloud developer system which allows them to spread the total cost over 36 months. HPE Private Cloud AI developer system delivers an instant AI development environment providing everything a developer needs to prove and scale AI workloads. This offer enables partners to showcase the system's versatility to customers without incurring significant upfront purchase costs. HPEFS also supports partners through a variety of limited-time programs that they can offer to their customers. These programs can help partners reduce or defer payments on a variety of technologies. HPE Smart Choice program streamlines SMB and mid-market data center opportunities for partners HPE Smart Choice is now globally available exclusively through the channel, providing partners with ready-to-go data center solutions targeting small and medium business (SMB) and mid-market customers. With fixed pricing, curated SKUs, and structured ordering processes, HPE Smart Choice simplifies the purchasing process and results in faster sales cycles and improved alignment with customer buying patterns. Partners also benefit from comprehensive training and promotional assets to help position and sell HPE Smart Choice effectively. The program currently includes top-selling configurations from HPE ProLiant Compute servers, HPE MSA and tape storage systems, along with HPE Tech Care Services. HPE Smart Choice is expanding with the addition of HPE Compute Ops Management (COM) and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, enabling partners to deliver even more complete and competitive solutions to their customers. "Preconfigured options are exactly what our online customers are looking for - solutions that are easy to understand, ready to deploy, and available for fast shipping," said Kevin Samuels, director of E-Commerce Brand and Content Management at BlueAlly. "These Smart Choice SKUs allow us to fulfill and process orders quickly, getting the product into the hands of customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. That speed and simplicity make a big difference in today's competitive online marketplace, where expectations around convenience and delivery are higher than ever." About HPE HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at Financing and service offerings available through Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "HPFSC") in certain countries and is subject to credit approval and execution of standard HPFSC documentation. Rates and terms are based on customer's credit rating, offering types, services and/or equipment type and options. Not all customers may qualify. Not all services or offers are available in all countries. Other restrictions may apply. HPFSC reserves the right to change or cancel this program at any time without notice. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Kari
