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September 11, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telus Enterprise Solutions (telus.com) has signed a
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three-year service provider program agreement with Hewlett-Packard Canada
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Ltd. (canada.hp.com) to offer e-business hosting solutions to HP customers across Canada.
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Telus is the first Canadian company to qualify for the HP Service Provider
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Program, which is designed to propel service provider growth, generate
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awareness and drive demand for joint HP and service provider solutions.
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Program features include co-selling, incentive and co-marketing commitments.
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Under the agreement, Telus will provide managed Web-hosting services and
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expand its support of the HP-UX operating system nationally. HP will also be
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Telus’s preferred Intel supplier. HP provides Telus with hardware
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infrastructure throughout Telus’s intelligent Internet Data Centres across
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Canada, including its two new facilities in Calgary and Toronto. HP sales
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representatives will also promote Telus hosting services to HP clients
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nationally.
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As a result of this relationship, Telus and HP will offer integrated hosting
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solutions for Canadian businesses. “By aligning with HP’s best-in-class
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products and its innovative approach to e.services, Telus will deliver
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industry-leading e.business solutions to market,” said Garry Rasmussen,
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president of Telus Enterprise Solutions. “In addition, we will leverage our
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relationship as an HP service provider to set industry-leading benchmarks
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for our intelligent Web solutions.”
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“The HP Service Provider Program is designed to enable service providers,
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such as Telus Enterprise Solutions, to become the cornerstone of an
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enterprise computing infrastructure,” said Randy Ostojic, vice president of
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enterprise sales, HP Canada. “We are pleased to welcome Telus to the program
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and are confident that our joint e-business customers will benefit from this
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Internet-enabled technology.”
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