Comments on: What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:12:45 +0000

After 1 year experience with HP Private Cloud solution (HP OO, HP CSA, HP Matrix…) and more than 4 years experience with 3 others solutions, I can’t be covinced that “HP’s vision is aligned nicely with what enterprises want” unless I miss something.
They have taken an IT technical approach quite long, expensive and complex to integrate and in which some key building blocks are still missing.
They are surely on the way to fix all this but lately compare to some competitor. Their vision looks more like a follower one.

By: Arijit

Arijit — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:22:54 +0000

Quick disclosure: We are a HP Cloud Partner so you may feel this comment is biased. However, we have used several of the other leading cloud solutions as well so I do have a basis for this comparison. The technical support from HP was the best we have seen. They helped us get our software on the HP Cloud in 3 days from start to finish. Using the HP Cloud CDN was even easier. Of course, their database solutions are taking too long to get ready, but people are seriously underestimating the HP Cloud. It has real potential.

By: Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:07:34 +0000

Interesting article. Something else to consider: Cloud computing provides an architecture that allows for failure points to be minimized in a very cost effective way. While a traditional enterprise application will have many infrastructure parts (app servers, db servers, web rendering servers, etc.) that must all be working to provide the solution, a newly architected cloud based application can be developed with a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture that can span the application components across different regions, or even different cloud providers. So a raw SLA number might not be as important as the cost of redundancy if the application is architected for cloud. For example, my firm (Ilesfay) offers data replication services between persistent cloud storage providers along with an API so that data can be retrieved from all synchronized locations. When an object is synced between US-east, US-west, EU-west, and AP-Singapore, and the application that is consuming the object is developed to use our API to ensure object availability, then SLAs for each region/provider are able to be combined. The probability of failure is less than in a “traditional” deployment model where the SLAs must be stacked together. Obviously there is cost associated with redundancy, but the RIO is simple to calculate. My take: Businesses want business continuity, not an SLA. An SLA is just a means to achieve as disruption free of an experience as possible.

By: Jerome Pineau

Jerome Pineau — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:14:47 +0000

“Given that, the hope is that the company can get people together to sell the HP cloud…” — Yeah, I think “hope” is pretty much most of what they have to run on at this stage…Dear Lord…

By: jhking

jhking — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:31:38 +0000

My preferred HP cloud with integrated hardware is called Savvis. You can chose from Savvis Symphony or savvis direct…

By: Tejinder Pal Singh

Tejinder Pal Singh — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:29:30 +0000

Hp is the best service provider…

By: Moazzam

Moazzam — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:10:33 +0000

Direct marketing is the best route to get through to the Enterprise sector these days. Sales and Marketing need to understand that in this time of uncertainty building relationships with your customers is critical. “Life’s a Pitch” :)

By: lawbax

lawbax — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:29:22 +0000

It surely is all about Monkey Magic – chippy taka once said – HP r better at this. Let Amazon sell

By: archestrationcanada

archestrationcanada — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:34:54 +0000

Want to try out hp’s cloud out real easy? Have a look @

http://www.ravellosystems.com/

Build a blueprint and hit deploy (pick the AZ), and currently it’s free…
HP will be a player in this space, but IMO it’s all about the tools then enable the easy cloud consumption. Also i want the ability to move my same workload around to various cloud providers…

By: Thomas Olsson

Thomas Olsson — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:42:12 +0000

What you are referring to is not HP Cloud Services, but some of the acquisitions made by HP Software. HP Cloud Service Automation is not coming from an acquisition, it is written from scratch. HP Cloud Service Automation utilizes HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation, both solutions came from the Opsware acquisition and supports heterogeneous environments and has a lot of integrations, right out-of-the-box!