New HP cloud platforms come with training wheels

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ed Scanell.

Betting on its belief that the future of cloud computing is both hybrid and open, Hewlett Packard debuted a collection of software and services it hopes will both encourage IT to implement their first private clouds and bolster its public cloud. The company rolled out software and a number of services under the OpenStack-based Cloud OS umbrella at its annual HP Discover conference here this week, which it believes better enables workload portability across hybrid clouds.

With the new Cloud OS, users can create compositional definitions for service provisioning, "sort of like a template where they can declare what they want in an infrastructure once and then provision it multiple times," according to Wendy Cartee, vice president of Converged Cloud with HP…

Cloud OS can be used across HP’s CloudSystem on-premises hardware as well as HP’s public cloud and managed cloud, Cartee said. It will also be offered on the company’s Moonshot servers later this year, she added. HP is bundling Cloud OS with Moonshot — a new line of servers intended to run Internet-scale applications — because the combination will make it easier to provision and manage targeted workloads, most notably dedicated Web hosting, company officials said…

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