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November 19, 2013 03:10 am GMT

Salesforce And HP Join To Offer Superpod, A Dedicated Hosted Service

Meg Whitman | CrunchBase ProfileSalesforce.com and HP are forming an alliance to create what they call a “Superpod,” that will provide customers with HP’s converged hardware to run on the SaaS provider’s infrastructure. HP CEO Meg Whitman will announce the news on stage tomorrow at Dreamforce withSalesforceCEO Marc Benioff. The superpod converged infrastructure, designed by HP, is what IT calls a converged infrastructure. It runs compute, storage andnetworkingall in one box as opposed to running across a distributed infrastructure such as with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new offering is meant for very large companies that have extensive IT infrastructurewhichrequire enterprise integrations and a level of compliance that can be guaranteed by having the SaaS environment all in one box. For HP, the company can now package itsexpensivehardwarewith the Salesforce SaaS technology. And Salesforce gets a way to move deeper inside large, corporationswiththe promise of a single, dedicated solution. In a prepared statement, Whitman described a “new style of IT,” that combines HP’s hardware technology with Salesforce cloud services. HP is banking on selling its converged infrastructure as a way to get deeper into the enterprise with what they have called a a private cloud service. In this case. HP is bringing the IT to Salesforce, a move that demonstrates how Salesforce ischangingto accomodate larger companies by partnering with legacyenterpriseproviders. Earlier this year, Salesforce inked a deal with Oracle to purchase the software giant’s convergeddatabasetechnology to run its SaaS offerings. At the cruz of this, isSalesforcenew stage of development, whichleveragesits platform and third-part ecosystem with technology that wouldnormallybe found in a corporate data center. For HP, the deal makes it more appealing as companies can access the services Salesforce offers through data center style, big box machines.

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