HPE and Microsoft Announcing a Preferred Partnership around Azure and Hybrid Cloud. What does this mean in simple words ?

HPE and Microsoft announced new innovation in Hybrid Cloud computing through Microsoft Azure and HPE infrastructure and private and managed cloud solutions. Specifically they announced that:

• Azure is a preferred public cloud partner for HPE customers while HPE is a preferred infra partner for Microsoft hybrid solutions
• Microsoft is announcing the HPE Hyper Converged 250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard, the first truly hybrid hyper-converged integrated system.
• HPE will move its big data and security software portfolio onto Azure in early 2016
• HPE will attach Azure services to every server it sells
• HPE has joined the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program to resell Microsoft Cloud services across Azure, EMS, O365; Microsoft has joined HPE’s Composable infrastructure program to further innovation on the future of hybrid infra
• HPE is also offering extended services for Azure including announcing new Centers for Excellence and certifying 5000 Cloud Architects for Azure.