Today, two of the most known companies in electronic technology, announced a 250 million $ investment in a project that would link the Microsoft Software to HP gear and sell it as one. Their united goal is to establish a team monopole in cloud technology. As the cloud advances, united forces are required to control it.

With HP support, Microsoft will take Cisco’s servers and its alliance with VMware, generating a huge blow to companies without a partner, such as DELL.

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If you were wondering what has the HP-Microsoft partnership to offer, we have the answer:

* Unifying a sales channel for HP-Microsoft gear.
* Hewlett-Packard won’t stop offering other hyper visors but it will have a cadre of salespeople dedicated to pushing Microsoft’s Hyper-V.
* Like it did with Oracle, Hewlett-Packard is going to build hardware specially optimized for Microsoft applications including an SQL server. HP declined to talk about what this means for its work with Oracle, but we think that’s for the past.
* Microsoft will use HP gear in its Azure cloud.
* The two will combine R&D forces to build out the future data center, which will be built around containers and will be optimized to run efficiently depending on the application.

Behind these optimization efforts lays a huge goal, that of finding a way to design a smart application similar to a data base who can deliver exactly the performance required for a specific task and no more. This means that a user requiring, for example, HP drivers will receive the information in real time communication with an actual computer, by an automated process that has no human intervention from the server side.

HP and Microsoft worked together before in April 2009, when Cisco finally unveiled its server plans. Coincidence? We think not.