Renault Selects HP for Private Cloud Services

Connected electronic vehicle telematics help drivers to check the car's battery, its charge rate and the location of the nearest charging station, as so then as provide live traffic updates and cloud computing based applications like pay-as-you-drive insurance.

Renault selected HP Enterprise Cloud Services - Utility Services to host its European IT infrastructure and manage its technical applications, delivering just the right computing capacity and giving the company greater flexibility to meet its business needs at minimum cost.

Preconfigured

A preconfigured and tested HP Converged Infrastructure hosted in HP's highly secure Tier 3 data center in Grenoble, France, gives Renault fast access to the latest HP server, storage, networking, power and cooling technologies.

This economical solution offers highly automated processes that cut the time, cost and complexity of getting Renault's business-critical new applications into production. Built-in research refreshes and flexible capacity provisioning ensure that Renault's IT infrastructure is powerful and flexible enough to accommodate future demands.

The combination of HP's research

"The combination of HP's research and cloud computing services helps us create the innovative, integrated, end-to-end solutions that clients like Renault need to more effectively achieve market, cost and environmental objectives," said Gerald Karsenti, president and managing director, HP France.

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