What HP’s new cloud guy wants you to know about HP’s new cloud
April 18, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
HP’s cloud computing efforts have been the subject of much curiosity — not always in a good way — over the past year, but Hewlett-Packard’s top cloud guy Saar Gillai said the company is putting confusion and concern about its long-term future behind it. “Last year was an interesting one, but in the last six months since, it’s all been positive news,” Gillai said in an interview on Wednesday at the OpenStack Summit.
During that timeframe HP brought its public cloud online and the compute, block store and object store subsystems are all broadly available. This week, it announced new “cloud bursting” capabilities for HP CloudSystem and that it had integrated its 3Par fibre-channel storage with OpenStack…
As for actual customer adoption of that HP public cloud? The company will only put the number at “thousands.” And, Gillai reaffirmed that the company will make OpenStack available on all its major platforms, which in theory would include its glitzy new Project Moonshot servers. OpenStack is HP’s operating system for cloud, is the message…
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