HP Plans to Dominate the Cloud
August 21, 2012
Think Amazon has the cloud locked up? Or that, perhaps, Google or IBM is destined to lead this field? InfoWorld presents another view in “HP’s Cloud Guy: Why We’re the Enterprise Cloud.” Wait, HP has a Cloud Guy?
Yes, it does, and his name is Biri Singh. Singh, who used to be VP of cloud computing at IBM, hopes to combine HP’s IaaS (infrastructure as a service) with integrated, private HP clouds. He and his team are basing the initiative on the open source cloud OS OpenStack. Writer Eric Knorr interviewed Singh and serves up part of the conversation in this article. It is a long read, so check it out yourself for all the details.
The part that interests me—who HP expects will use their cloudy solutions. Singh states:
“We’re going after the enterprise developer, where there are a bunch of expectations about which production workloads are going to end up on the public cloud. We happen to think there will be tens of thousands use cases that are ultimately going to be driven by the need for a secure, SLA-driven, enterprise-class quality of service. Our focus is the enterprise developer, but also IT ops.
“For production workloads enterprises may consider running, they want the scale, they want the advantage of cost efficiencies. They want the security. But most importantly, they want a vendor who understands what they’re about, who they’ve done business with, who understands the need for innovative services yet can balance out SLA, security, and customer service — and who provides choices in terms of being an open architecture, partnering with other stacks and not locking in customers.”
Singh asserts that some of HP’s competitors, including Amazon Web Services, have been shortsighted. Their approach, he says, is the outdated “stand up a bunch of VMs and see what happens.” Developers and businesses are looking for more—better tools, modern languages and frameworks, and tight security. HP is ready to address their needs like no one else can, he pledges.
We’ll see.
Cynthia Murrell, August 21, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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