HP Cloud Services: Can Singh Rally Partners?

November 27, 2012 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panetierri.

What’s next for the HP Public Cloud? Senior VP Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh will deliver the answers during HP Discover 2012 (Dec. 4-6, Franfurt, Germany). Sure, CEO Meg Whitman will assure customers and partners that HP is on the mend following a brutal write-down tied to the 2011 Autonomy acquisition. But for established and emerging cloud partners, Singh’s words will matter most.

As senior VP and general manager, HP Cloud Services, Singh has been working to effectively position his company against entrenched rivals (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, etc.) and old foes that are moving into cloud computing (Dell, IBM, Oracle). He explained the strategy — including channel partner considerations — to Talkin’ Cloud during the OpenStack conference in April 2012…

But how much progress have Singh and HP made since that April interview? During HP Discovery, Singh is expected to explain how customers are moving workloads seamlessly between private, managed and public clouds…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-events/hp-cloud-services-can-singh-rally-partners