Hp and the Enterprise Cloud
HP and the enterprise cloud
HP sees an opportunity to couple HP's pure-play IaaS cloud with private HP clouds that will "integrate very naturally" with each other. In that hybrid approach, HP relies on OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, to provide the underpinning for HP's public and private cloud offerings.
Q: What sort of developers do you feel will be inclined to adopt HP's cloud offerings?
HP: We're going after the enterprise developer, where there are a bunch of expectations about which production workloads are going to end up on the public cloud. We happen to think there will be tens of thousands use cases that are ultimately going to be driven by the need for a secure, SLA-driven, enterprise-class quality of service. Our focus is the enterprise developer, but also IT ops.
For production workloads enterprises may consider running, they want the scale, they want the advantage of cost efficiencies. They want the security. But most importantly, they want a vendor who understands what they're about, who they've done business with, who understands the need for innovative services yet can balance out SLA, security, and customer service -- and who provides choices in terms of being an open architecture, partnering with other stacks and not locking in customers.
If you look at infrastructure clouds, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is obviously at one end of the spectrum, but you also have a bunch of telcos that have tried this, and their notion of cloud is -- well, stand up a bunch of VMs and let's see what happens. I think that's such a 2009 phenomena; we've passed that. What developers and enterprises are looking for, they're saying: Give me a set of services. I want to be able to run workloads in a secure cloud environment. And I want the best tools, the most modern languages and frameworks to build those. We're trying to address the needs of developers and IT ops with a particular emphasis on the kind of enterprise, production-grade workloads are
HP sees an opportunity to couple HP's pure-play IaaS cloud with private HP clouds that will "integrate very naturally" with each other. In that hybrid approach, HP relies on OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, to provide the underpinning for HP's public and private cloud offerings.
Q: What sort of developers do you feel will be inclined to adopt HP's cloud offerings?
HP: We're going after the enterprise developer, where there are a bunch of expectations about which production workloads are going to end up on the public cloud. We happen to think there will be tens of thousands use cases that are ultimately going to be driven by the need for a secure, SLA-driven, enterprise-class quality of service. Our focus is the enterprise developer, but also IT ops.
For production workloads enterprises may consider running, they want the scale, they want the advantage of cost efficiencies. They want the security. But most importantly, they want a vendor who understands what they're about, who they've done business with, who understands the need for innovative services yet can balance out SLA, security, and customer service -- and who provides choices in terms of being an open architecture, partnering with other stacks and not locking in customers.
If you look at infrastructure clouds, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is obviously at one end of the spectrum, but you also have a bunch of telcos that have tried this, and their notion of cloud is -- well, stand up a bunch of VMs and let's see what happens. I think that's such a 2009 phenomena; we've passed that. What developers and enterprises are looking for, they're saying: Give me a set of services. I want to be able to run workloads in a secure cloud environment. And I want the best tools, the most modern languages and frameworks to build those. We're trying to address the needs of developers and IT ops with a particular emphasis on the kind of enterprise, production-grade workloads are