ABB and HPE partner to create merged IT and OT solutions
ABB携手慧与合作开发IT和OT融合方案

November 28, 2017 - ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a strategic global partnership that combines ABB’s digital offerings, ABB Ability, with HPE’s hybrid information technology (IT) solutions. The partnership will provide customers with solutions that generate actionable insights from vast amounts of industrial data.

2017年11月28日——ABB和慧与（HPE）宣布了一项全球性战略合作伙伴关系，将ABB Ability数字化方案，与HPE混合信息技术（IT）解决方案相结合。该合作将提供帮助客户从海量工业数据中分析提取可行性洞察的解决方案。

ABB and HPE will deliver joint industry solutions that merge OT and IT to turn industrial data into insights and automatic action, combining cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure with IT systems running in corporate data centers and at the edge of the network. Employing the right mix of IT platforms will accelerate data processing in industrial plants and at the same time enable control of industrial processes across locations.

ABB和HPE将提供融合OT和IT的工业解决方案，将工业数据转化为洞察力和控制操作，整合诸如微软Azure等各种云平台、企业数据中心的IT系统、以及边缘计算网络上的应用。通过采用合理的IT平台组合，帮助工厂提高数据处理速度，并同时实现跨地点的工业流程控制。

With an installed base of 70 million connected devices, 70,000 digital control systems and 6,000 enterprise software solutions, ABB is well-entrenched in the industrial space, and has a four-decade-long history of creating digital solutions for customers. HPE in turn is a global company helping customers optimize their IT environments with secure, software-defined technologies that seamlessly integrate across traditional IT, multiple public and private clouds and the intelligent edge to drive key business outcomes.

作为一家享有盛誉的技术领军企业，ABB已在数字化领域深耕40余年，并在全球范围安装了7000多万台互联设备、7万多套控制系统和6000多个企业软件解决方案。HPE是一家全球性公司，通过安全的软件定义技术帮助客户优化其IT环境，这些技术能够跨传统IT，多种公共和私有云，以及智能边缘无缝集成，并实现关键业务成果。

To provide a true end-to-end experience for customers, the ABB-HPE partnership will include co-innovation, co-development, joint go to market and service.

为了实现真正端到端的客户体验，ABB和HPE将在合作中共同创新、共同研发，并在市场推广和服务方面开展紧密合作。

Research firm IDC forecasts that worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow to $1.4 trillion in 2021 from an expected $800 billion in 2017. The largest investments are being made in areas such as manufacturing, transportation and utilities. To tap into the opportunities of the IoT, companies are investing in new solutions that digitize their industrial equipment and integrate it with their broader IT environments. By joining forces, ABB and HPE are bringing together the capabilities needed to accelerate this transformation.

据市场研究机构IDC预测，全球物联网（IoT）支出将从2017年的8000亿美元增长至2021年的1.4万亿美元，主要投资领域包括制造业、交通和公用事业。为了挖掘物联网带来的机遇，各家企业积极投资开发新的解决方案，以推动工业设备的数字化以及与更广阔的IT环境的深度融合。通过强强联手，ABB和HPE将加速这一进程。

The partnership was announced at the HPE Discover conference in Madrid, where both companies demonstrated their first jointly developed solutions and prototypes.

这次合作是在马德里举行的HPE Discover大会上宣布的，两家公司都展示了他们首次共同开发的解决方案和原型。