What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud
November 19, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Zorawar Biri Singh, who leads HP’s cloud effort, says the company’s vision aligns nicely with what enterprises want. HP will fill in check marks to its OpenStack-based game plan next month but the big question is whether HP’s brand still carries weight.
The controversies that have afflicted Hewlett-Packard in the past few years has given even the most loyal customers and partners pause. This is, after all, a company that has gone through a half dozen CEOs in 6 years. That uncertainty doesn’t help the company’s cloud computing strategy, which had so many moving parts that the company launched yet another reorg to rationalize the effort two months ago…
That might help, but HP still needs to prove it can execute on cloud computing and not surprisingly, Zorawar Biri Singh, SVP and GM of HP Cloud Services, says it can. Here’s a boiled down version of the Q&A I had with Singh Friday afternoon.
Where’s the rest of the HP OpenStack cloud?
The HP public cloud beta that went live in May includes OpenStack-based storage and content delivery network (CDN) components. The compute piece of that cloud will come soon — probably next month at the HP Discover conference in Frankfurt. Singh did not promise code delivery at that time, but said to “stay tuned.” And a betting person would say that the company had better have real code ready for that event…
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