HP CIO Ramon Baez sees your future in the cloud

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

This week, at its annual Discover user conference, Hewlett-Packard put cloud computing and big data on the top of the agenda, capitalizing on the heavy work it has been doing with these technologies. Recently, the company unified its cloud services under the Helion brand name, using the open-source OpenStack as a foundation.

The company continues to work on its software stack for big-data processing, called HAVEn (Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, enterprise security, apps). The company also plans to launch an online magazine, called Matter, designed to help top executives understand how best to drive business value through technology…

One of the chief issues the magazine will address is the growing gap between the promise of cloud computing and big data and the actual IT systems that organizations have in place today. Prior to Discover, we sat down with HP CIO Ramon Baez to learn more about HP’s vision for cloud computing and big data and how HP can help its customers make the most of these new technologies. Here is an edited transcript of that conversation…

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