HPE Acquires Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) to Strengthen Expertise in Cloud Consulting Services
CTP Strengthens HPE’s Hybrid IT Capabilities by Extending its Cloud Consulting Expertise
To further strengthen our consulting capabilities, today HPE announces our intent to acquire Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a born–in- the-cloud services company with strong enterprise experience and DNA. Put simply, CTP helps its enterprise clients:
- Move to the cloud– CTP helps sophisticated IT organizations move to the cloud by helping them determine which applications are optimal for both public and private clouds, executing the migrations, while helping them transform their organizations for the future.
- Innovate on the cloud– CTP helps its clients build new and disruptive solutions using key technologies like IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning.
- Operate the cloud– With its Managed Cloud Controls (suite of next-generation managed services), CTP helps its clients achieve governance, risk and regulatory compliance on day 1 while also automating the reconciliation of actual cloud spend back to the projected TCO savings in the original business case and optimize spend.
Since it was founded in 2010, CTP’s architects have been designing, building and implementing IT solutions for Fortune 500 clients across industries and have completed almost 500 enterprise cloud transformation projects. CTP is cloud agnostic, with extensive experience on multiple platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and OpenStack. Together, HPE and CTP will provide our customers with a comprehensive IT strategy that includes private, managed and public clouds, as well as traditional IT.
Together, HPE and CTP can Accelerate Business Performance & Help Customers Drive Digital Innovation
CTP’s consulting, design and operational advisory services for cloud environments will strengthen our Hybrid IT consulting expertise in a fast growing market. Spending on the Hybrid IT Consulting and Cloud Native Development segments is approximately $6 billion today, growing at over 18 percent. Together, we will be even better positioned to capitalize on this market trend. The CTP team has built strong customer momentum and will be able to accelerate that momentum by leveraging HPE’s global brand and go-to- market.
More and more, customers are seeking a trusted advisor who knows where the market is going, and can shape their long-term roadmap and provide the solutions that will allow them to keep pace in this digital world. Together with CTP, we will provide customers with the ability to more quickly build new innovative digital experiences, simply manage and forecast IT costs and ensure the applications running their business stay secure. All while optimizing their environment so they can free up resources to grow, innovate and stay ahead of the competition.