After a 3-year, $250 million cloud partnership, Microsoft and HP unveiled some the fruits of their joint labor. The first product is the HP Business Decision Appliance which reportedly takes an hour to install and is to run business intelligence applications. The appliance offers advanced analytics features  for Microsoft’s SQL and SharePoint.

“The appliance, they say, greatly reduces the time and effort for companies to deploy and manage business intelligence, which is a fancy way of saying you’re analyzing the data from the operation of your business, and looking for patterns or trends that might not otherwise be apparent.”

The second product is the HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance, a data store which was unrelieved back in November. In turn, the third product is the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, which is aimed to help deploy Microsoft’s email, calendar and contact software within just a few hours.

In addition to the 3 products already available, there’s also one appliance still in the making, the HP Database Consolidation Appliance. It will reportedly be able to bring hundreds of databases into a single appliance, and will run on SQL server and Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud.

Microsoft and HP were quite busy lately, beyond the products development segment as well. HP recently landed a $2.5 billion, 10 year contract with NASA, and Microsoft gained itself some new customers including Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and the University of Georgia.

Another cloud giant with big news this week was EMC with a record-breaking 41 products during their big NYC data event. SiliconANGLE was there,  covering the new products, which included the new VNXe line, the latest version of Symmetrix Enginuity, a line of record-breaking Data Domain backup systems and others.