Managed IT is not the future of the cloud
November 10, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Oleg Dulin.
On October 21st, HP officially announced what many of us anticipated for months. After months of denials and flip-flopping they will shut down their HP Helion Public Cloud service. How does their SLA stack up against other cloud providers now? The problem with HP’s cloud strategy was simple:
In April 2015, Hilf told the New York Times. "We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head." HP offered a small subset of features cloud adopters look for. Their compute service offered a fraction of what AWS EC2 service does, at prices starting at 3-times those of EC2…
Their relational database service never came out of public beta. Their storage services were pitiful compared to AWS storage options. They never offered any of the application-level services. Ultimately it was the lack of direction that undermined them. Bartoletti said: It wasn’t a mistake to get into public cloud, but the failure came from keeping the product in beta so long and not being clear with a strategy that said why it was better, faster or cheaper than what was out there…
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