HP Inks Data Center Deals

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced it has signed data center design services contracts with more than 60 customers in the last six months.

EYP Mission Critical Facilities (EYP MCF), a company of HP, provides strategic planning, design and operations support to help companies transform their data centers, optimize energy efficiency and enable business growth.

In the past six months, organizations across 12 industries and 27 countries including Credit Suisse, UBS, Digital Realty Trust and Power Loft – have signed up for EYP MCF’s data infrastructure services. More than 500 companies have worked with EYP MCF to design their data centers, command and control centers, trading floors, and supercomputing sites. As a result of the high demand in mission-critical services projects, HP plans to broaden its EYP MCF services availability to more countries.

“Companies from all over the world are turning to HP to design and build the next-generation data centers required for high-density scalable computing,” said Peter Gross, chief executive officer, EYP Mission Critical Facilities. “By offering customers the right solutions to complex energy-efficiency and optimization challenges, we are giving them the keys to adapt and transform to meet changing business needs.”

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