Cloud Computing: HP-Eucalyptus – buying an edge in a busy, complex market
September 15, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dan Kusnetzsky.
Hewlett-Packard’s move to acquire Eucalpytus (see HP buys Eucalyptus, puts Marten Mickos in charge of cloud unit by my colleague Larry Dignan) is the latest example of asupplier trying to be a part of every industry party. Like all major hardware players, HP wants want to be involved with cloud regardless of the stack of software used to create the cloud computing environment.
They do this because they wish to be chosen by their installed base regardless of the industry trend or technology. If we take a moment to consider the major systems and software players, a strong majority of them are involved with Amazon AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware vSpere and even Cloud Stack. I don’t believe that they expect any one of those to be the clear winner and all of the others will go away…
They need to present the image and the reality that they are involved and have expertise regardless of what their customers are likely to ask of them…
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