Hewlett-Packard at Smart City Malta

Hewlett-Packard is to set up a regional office at Smart City Malta to showcase the firm’s latest products and services in the Mediterranean region.

HP will be offering the hybrid cloud services for Smart City Malta and its business partners to balance the affordability and flexibility found in the public cloud and the security and confidentiality assured by the private cloud models.

Smart City Malta CEO Fareed Abdulrahman said Smart City’s business partners would enjoy secure yet cost-effective cloud services.

He said Malta was becoming a destination for technology firms to serve the EU and north African markets, and Smart City Malta was a focal part of the country’s vision to be a regional excellence centre for a knowledge-based economy.

“Smart City and Malta are an ideal choice for a company like HP.

“HP’s capabilities to empower business and governments to reach more customers and create instant-on experience is especially important in an areawhere communication across continent is demanded,” said Franz Scherz, managing director for HP CDG.

Mr Abdulrahman said HP was the ideal business partner in terms of quality, connectivity and access to key markets.

Also, the growth potential in Malta, the Mediterranean region and in north Africa made Smart City a strategic location for a company like HP.