Cloud Computing: Helion Project More Crucial to HP Recovery Than ‘The Machine’
June 13, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.
Hewlett-Packard held press briefings on two new initiatives as the company’s Discover conference drew toward a close this week. One briefing highlighted an HP Labs project aimed at reinventing enterprise computer architecture. The other briefing highlighted how HP is going "all in" on OpenStack. The OpenStack press briefing was the more important one.
OpenStack, a community-developed, open enterprise computing stack, represents a first chance for startups anxious to sell into the enterprise and a second chance for established vendors anxious to find their footing in an era when cloud computing is becoming the central computing engine for enterprises…
Supporting OpenStack (and there are other computing stacks) puts established enterprise vendors on the right side of history and allows them to surround and fund the marketing, channel, rights and support functions required to spur enterprise sales rather than devote a substantial part of their financial resources to develop proprietary platforms…
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