HP Helion support makes cloud computing ready for prime time
June 11, 2014
Grazed from HPBlogHub. Author: Don Randall.
It’s easy for us in the IT industry to get wrapped up in the technology. That’s what we’re good at. So when a new technology—like cloud computing—comes along, we’re eager to put it to work and see what it can do. But there are a lot of surrounding elements required before a technology can go prime time—when business leaders entrust their success to it…
Things like security and reliability, support, education, and expert assistance when you need it. You would like those things to come from a trusted partner who has been in the business a while. But you don’t want to be locked in—you should have choices. It was when those things came together for Linux, for example, that it took off. Now it runs thousands of businesses and is embedded in tens-of-thousands of products…
We’re at a similar juncture with cloud. And HP Helion is helping cloud computing turn the corner from development platform to enterprise-class business platform. If you missed the press, Helion—among other things—takes the OpenStack environment, hardens it for enterprise-class reliability and security, and surrounds it with services, education, and support. The focus of Helion is hybrid IT—the combination of public cloud, private cloud, and traditional IT most industry experts expect to become the enterprise computing environment of the future. And we’re committing $1 billion USD over the next couple of years to growing the depth and breadth of the program…
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