Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has organised HPE Global Partner Conference (GPC) 2016 on Sept. 12-14 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center .
HPE has announced, from its 2016 GPC, its new offerings and expanded resources specifically designed to help channel partners navigate and accelerate their growth in a highly dynamic technology landscape.
HPE’s industry-leading 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 new and fully integrated Partner Ready Networking Program, a revamped Partner Ready Service Provider (PRSP) Program, as well as an updated suite of ready-made partner marketing resources. This HPE has been doing by keeping an eye on three partner segments at the conference: (1) solutions providers/distributors, (2) alliance members, ISVs and systems integrators and (3) service providers.
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 solutions build across HPE product lines, including networking, cloud, storage, hyper-converged computing and more.
“HPE is an even more channel-focused organization committed to innovating new, collaborative solutions that enable growth for the company and our partners,†said Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “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.â€
“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 Kerry Bailey, worldwide channel chief of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “With that insight at our core, HPE is better positioned than any other vendor in the market today to provide partner-ready solutions for the full range of channel business models and growth categories.â€
HPE Partner Ready Program Updates:• A Competency-Driven Approach to HPE Partner Ready HPE is now empowering and rewarding partners working to accelerate their sales growth in specific areas with the introduction of channel “competencies†– or a refined expertise around clusters of select HPE solutions.
• HPE Partner Ready for Networking Program The new Partner Ready for Networking program combines the best elements of the Aruba PartnerEdge and HPE Networking channel programs to enable partners to capitalize on the burgeoning enterprise mobility market.
• HPE Partner Ready for Service Providers Program HPE is unveiling a newly enhanced track within Partner Ready, specifically addressing the needs of the growing number of Service Providers (SPs) delivering their services using HPE technology and IT investment solutions.
• HPE Partner Ready for Technology Partners Program HPE has revamped the Partner Ready for Technology Partners Program to enable independent software vendors and independent hardware vendors to more easily integrate, validate and market product integrations together with HPE.
• HPE Partner Ready Marketing Tools 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. • 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.
• 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.
• Aruba Mobile First Platform Aruba is unveiling the Aruba Mobile First Platform, a software layer that uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide third-party developers and business leaders with network insights to improve applications and services.
• Flexible Consumption Models for Networking Aruba is announcing new network procurement and consumption models to give enterprise customers more flexibility and choice in how they obtain and support their network infrastructure.
• 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 start-up services all tied together, providing customers the ability to order customized virtualization, cloud and VDI workloads all in five clicks or less and extending HPE Flash and Software-Defined Storage to SMB.
