Deploying an enterprise cloud with HP

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Antony Savvas.

Many enterprises mix-and-match multiple clouds depending on their needs, and that is where cloud deployments can get complicated. The developing cloud market is seeing organisations increasingly working with a blend of different cloud infrastructures, whether that be private, public or a mixture of the two by using hybrid clouds.

With these options having to be matched with a variety of cloud services, such as infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and well established software-as-a-service offerings, organisations need the right kind of cloud deployment support. Businesses deploying a blend of clouds to handle different types of application workloads means cloud management platforms must include a policy-based governance engine to make sure the right workload is matched to exactly the right cloud service…

In a cloud computing environment, organisations can increase and decrease the number of users of computing resources instantly. They can also provision new resources and stop using them when required. With the right tools, this provisioning can be automated and efficiently managed, further increasing business agility…

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