HP converges cloud services

CRN says.

The most recent part of the program is HP Cloud Services, the company's public cloud, designed to compete with major public cloud players such as Amazon and Google, and allow businesses to utilise HP's infrastructure, computing and storage products.

HP Cloud Services has been in private beta for eight months and was to be publicly available on 10 May. Businesses seeking to use HP Converged Cloud can move between private, public and hybrid clouds using common architecture and HP's OpenStack, open source platform to use different vendors' products, HP says.

Thomas Ryan, VP of marketplace and ecosystem within HP's Cloud Services unit, explains that HP's new services rethink cloud delivery for enterprise needs with abilities such as compute capability in a public cloud and scalable online storage capacity, ZDNet writes.

Ryan points towards the integration of open source technology via OpenStack, offering more choices, comfort and flexibility to enterprise customers so that they are not locked down with a single vendor.

Furthermore, the Converged Cloud was built on a standards-based approach for working within a partner ecosystem.

Some of the new services being rolled out as part of the Converged Cloud include HP Cloud Maps, a set of pre-packaged templates to produce apps ready for push-button deployment, and virtual application networks for combating the bottlenecks in workflows seen with older, legacy networks.