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HP expands cloud portfolio with VMware

Johannesburg, 29 Aug 2012

HP has expanded its Converged portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1.

According to HP, the solution enables organisations to transform traditional virtualisation deployments into open, private and hybrid cloud environments with less and complexity.

The company also claims the platform enables the integration of any combination of private, managed and public cloud, as well as traditional IT. This combination provides workload portability as well as dynamic scaling, it adds.

The expanded HP Converged Cloud portfolio, built on HP Converged Infrastructure and HP Converged Management and , has been optimised for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, and includes new capabilities that enable businesses to reduce complexity and accelerate building and managing cloud with pre-integrated solutions, HP notes in a statement.

It also enables organisations to fast-track cloud adoption with security and compliance controls that can be automatically applied to virtual machines, as well as decrease the risk of data loss with automated policy-based data protection.

“Extending HP Converged Cloud with comprehensive, integrated solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 enables clients to embrace secure cloud computing with less risk and greater choice.”

Says Raghu Raghuram, executive VP, cloud infrastructure and management, VMware: “With VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, organisations will have reliable, flexible cloud solutions that enhance business agility while also addressing individual enterprise needs quickly and efficiently.

“VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and HP Converged Cloud solutions will enable our joint customers to accelerate their journeys to the cloud, giving enterprises a proven, integrated solution that provides a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving market.”

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