Cloud Computing: Get the Helion out of there, now!
December 6, 2015
Grazed from IT KnowledgExchange. Author: Joel Shore.
Not even two years. HP’s Helion public cloud service, launched on May 6, 2014. It’s being euthanized on Jan. 31, 2016. If your organization has workload and data assets in the HP cloud, they must be moved elsewhere by that cutoff date.Not even one year. In reality, HP pretty much threw in the towel after less than a year. Just 11 months after its launch, in an April 7, 2015 New York Times story, Bill Hilf, HP’s senior vice president of cloud products and services sounded the death knell: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head.” That’s head to head with the big three, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud…
Selling public cloud services was a logical step. HP, the company with the largest share of the worldwide server market, would sell you compute services instead. According to figures published on Aug. 25, 2015 by researcher IDG, HP had a 25.4% share of server revenue worldwide. Dell came in second with 17.5% followed by IBM at 14.8%…
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