Sep, 2001 : OptiGlobe and HP Expand Partnership in Latin America

📅 September 4, 2001 - OptiGlobe (optiglobe.com), LatinAmerica's premier provider of mission-criticalenterprise and Internet Data Center services, andHewlett Packard (hp.com) today announced thatOptiGlobe has become the first HP Elite ServiceProvider Partner in the region, deepening theCompanies' strategic relationship to provide ITsolutions to businesses throughout Latin America.

The partnership involves joint sales, marketing,solution development and services efforts, and buildsupon a February 2001 infrastructure and financingaccord between the Companies valued at over $100million.
"HP's unique relationship with OptiGlobe not onlycreates a powerful alliance in the evolving market ofmission-critical hosting and IT outsourcing, but alsocertifies OptiGlobe as capable of delivering servicesof the highest quality," said Fausto Dedeschi, HP'sindustry manager for the Latin American region. "Weare very impressed with OptiGlobe's professional andmanaged services and world-class hosting facilities.Together we can offer comprehensive, best of breedsolutions to our customers."
As an Elite Service Provider Partner, OptiGlobe willwork with HP to offer HP's existing customers andother large enterprises outsourcing solutions that canreduce the total cost of ownership of their hardwareand software investments while improving theperformance, security and reliability of theirmission-critical applications.
In addition to joint sales efforts, HP and OptiGlobewill develop, market and sell packaged vertical andhorizontal solutions that incorporate both Companies'products. OptiGlobe will also leverage HP'scapabilities to provide system integration services inOptiGlobe's world-class IDCs.
"This agreement takes advantage of the synergiesbetween our companies, customers and product suites,"said Scott Puritz, CEO and chair at OptiGlobe. "Bothorganizations serve many large enterprises withstringent IT requirements. By combining HP's always-onproducts with OptiGlobe's infrastructure,connectivity, professional and managed services, weare providing companies with the solutions they needto host, manage and scale their mission-criticalapplications and systems."

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