BlackBerry Becomes First EMM Vendor to Join HP Helion Network

BlackBerry’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution, BES12 Cloud, has been certified through the HP Helion Ready Program.

BES12 Cloud becomes the first EMM solution to become part of the HP Helion Network, an ecosystem of service providers, value-added resellers, independent software vendors and other partners.

With the certification, customers can now select BES12 Cloud as their EMM solution for use with HP Helion OpenStack.

The HP Helion Ready Program for OpenStack® technology offers hardware vendors and solution providers a way to test and certify their products with HP Helion OpenStack, and become a part of a rapidly expanding ecosystem.

Steve Dietch, Vice President, Cloud Go to Market, HP said:

“BlackBerry’s enterprise portfolio and global presence reinforce HP and the Helion community’s commitment to creating an open ecosystem of leading IT vendors,”

“This program allows customers to confidently deploy HP Helion OpenStack in mixed environments with hardware and software solutions that are certified and supported.”

HP Helion OpenStack is a commercial-grade distribution of OpenStack. This distribution, backed by HP, enables customers to more easily build, manage, and use open-source based hybrid clouds in a resilient, maintainable platform. HP Helion OpenStack enables cost-effective scalability of IT services and business agility and, as part of the HP Helion portfolio, it is backed by a wide range of related cloud products, services, and professional support.

This program allows your customers to confidently deploy HP Helion OpenStack in heterogeneous environments with hardware and software solutions that are certified and supported.

The HP Helion Network aims to provide open source-based cloud computing at scale.

• If you’re an enterprise, you’ll be able to select cloud services from the broadest and most robust portfolio of enterprise-grade cloud solutions.
• As a service provider, you will benefit by standardizing on the HP Helion OpenStack® platform to extend and enhance the capabilities you offer your customers.

HP Helion appeals to enterprises and service providers looking to obtain real value from hybrid IT. The HP Helion Ready program gives you the opportunity to certify once, and then sell solutions to an enterprise customer base across all cloud distribution models, —including public, private, and managed clouds.

Hardware and software that has earned the “HP Helion Ready” badge can be sold to an expansive base of enterprise customers. The large global HP Sales team and prospective enterprise customers can discover certified software and hardware through the HP Helion Ready ISV Solution Catalog and the list of supported hardware. Additionally, HP Sales will recognize the badge as representing qualified hardware and software and potentially include them in enterprise sales conversations.

BES12 Cloud makes managing devices, apps and data simpler with a cloud-based EMM solution that is secure, flexible and simple to deploy and easy to use. No matter if customers are using iOS, Android, Windows or BlackBerry devices, businesses powered by BES12 Cloud are more protected and more productive.