Cloud Cruiser Now Offered as Billing Solution to Track Usage by User and Cost for HP Flexible Capacity Customers

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Dec 04, 2014, 08:00 ET

BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Cruiser, provider of solutions for hybrid IT consumption-based delivery management, today announced that HP Flexible Capacity customers can deploy Cloud Cruiser to track usage by user and cost providing automatic billing for downstream customers with detailed reports and analysis.

HP Flexible Capacity provides customers an on-premise private cloud infrastructure with public cloud, pay-as-you-go economics and the ability to flex-up or flex-down, subject to minimum capacity requirements, based on evolving needs. Cloud Cruiser's software solution delivers the usage tracking or metering and billing capabilities that support a consumption-based model.

"We are very pleased to work with HP as adoption of HP Flexible Capacity gains traction with enterprise customers," states Bob Coleman, Cloud Cruiser's VP of Alliances. "Our collaboration with HP to combine innovative technology with business enablement provides customers a competitive advantage to reap the economic benefits of HP's Flexible Capacity."

The Cloud Cruiser solution was architected from the ground up for on-demand, scalable cloud environments. The product offers granular consumption tracking, agile pricing models, and billing automation, as well as a robust suite of decision analytics designed to help companies transform their IT businesses into more efficient and profitable enterprises.

"We are focused on providing customers with superior services to help achieve IT flexibility at reduced costs," says Scott Ramsay, Director, Datacenter Care Services, HP. "HP Flexible Capacity offers smooth and cost-effective capacity for customers and collaborating with Cloud Cruiser provides even greater flexibility and choice."

About Cloud Cruiser

Founded in 2010, Cloud Cruiser provides the industry's only end-to-end solution that optimizes the delivery of consumption-based IT services for hybrid cloud and traditional computing environments. With Cloud Cruiser, IT professionals successfully transition from an allocation to a consumption-based model and achieve clarity, control and significant cost savings that ultimately create business value. Cloud Cruiser goes to market directly and indirectly through alliance partners including HP, Microsoft, Cisco, Rackspace, AWS and OpenStack.

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