July 19, 2007. IBS, the leader in the Russian IT and consulting market, receives the HP DataCenter Solutions 2007 specialization under the HP Preferred Partner program. Hewlett-Packard, the global vendor of key technologies for corporate customers and end users, has confirmed that IBS received the DataCenter Solutions 2007 specialization, having complied with all the specialization criteria.
This specialization brings IBS the benefits of higher competence and privileged access to HP resources, enabling IBS to respond faster to customer requests. IBS will also be able to benefit from enhanced specialist training, support during presale preparation, HP registration of IBS deals, and top priority access to new product release plans and demo equipment.
DataCenter Solutions is a specialization limited to the most experienced and competent HP partners who provide high availability solutions and are able to support servers, data storage systems and critical business applications. IBS customers using HP DataCenter Solutions are top Russian companies and public institutions including Higher School of Economics (State University), Russian Federation Federal Taxation Service, I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Eurasia Drilling Company, etc.
Unique HP specializations are exclusive to accredited HP Preferred Partners giving them exclusive market exposure that matches their in-depth expertise and large experience. Being an HP Preferred Partner means that IBS is recommended by HP to HP customers for dealing with solutions based on HP products, which is also confirmed by a number of top-level HP partnerships. In particular, IBS enjoys a platinum HP level for software products.
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About IBS
IBS is the leader in the Russian consulting and IT market. It is part of IBS Group. For more information about IBS please visit http://www.ibs.ru/
For further information please contact Lada Scherbakova, PR Director. Phone: +7 495 967-80-80, e-mail: lada@ibs.ru
On April 17, 2007 IBS and Borlas Consulting Group announced merger and formation of the new merged company having estimated FY’2006 consolidated revenue of USD 380 million (US GAAP), the total staff size of over 3,500 (including over 1,500 certified consultants) and over 50% aggregate services proportion in the revenue. 84 of Russia’s top 100 companies are customers of IBS and Borlas Consulting Group. The merged company is the absolute leader in the business applications and management consulting market (over 20% of the market) and the largest IT services company in Russia and Eastern Europe.
About HP
HP seeks to facilitate use of information technologies helping to solve problems of all its customers, from individual users to large corporations. An extensive HP portfolio of products and solutions includes image printing and processing systems, PCs, software, IT services and infrastructure. HP is among the world's top IT companies and had USD 97.1 billion revenue in the four financial quarters ending April 30, 2007.
For further information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) please visit http://www.hp.ru/.
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