HP Offers Managed Storage in Helion Cloud Platform
June 21, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
The tech giant, which will invest $1 billion over two years in the cloud, looks to broaden the services it’s offering in its IaaS solution. Hewlett-Packard is bringing managed storage services to its Helion cloud computing platform, the latest move in its efforts to rapidly expand its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.
HP officials this week introduced Helion Managed Storage to help organizations deal with the rapidly growing amount of data they need to store and the increasing associated costs of doing it themselves. The tech giant is offering a range of services that, like other Helion solutions, can be deployed in a hybrid fashion—on premises, in a hosted private cloud environment or in a public cloud hosted by HP or a partner…
The goal is to give businesses a managed solution they can deploy in whatever way they need, that is secure and manageable and is cost-efficient, officials said. HP estimates that enterprises are seeing a 25 percent annual increase in the demands on their storage infrastructures, forcing them to increase capacity in anticipation of that growth by buying storage they might not always need…
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