Mumbai:HP has now introduced HP Helion, a portfolio of cloud products and services that enable organizations to build, manage and consume workloads in hybrid IT environments. Official reports stated, ‘HP will invest more than $1 billion over the next two years on cloud services'.
As a founding platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation and a leader in the OpenStack and Cloud Foundry communities, HP has taken an initiative to deliver OpenStack technologies and Cloud Foundry-based solutions to the global marketplace. HP Helion incorporates existing HP cloud offerings, new OpenStack technology–based products, and professional and support services under a unified portfolio to help meet customers’ specific business requirements.
The Helion OpenStack community edition is a free version ideal for proofs of concept, pilots and basic production workloads. HP Helion Development Platform is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry, offering IT departments and developers an open platform to build, deploy and manage applications quickly and easily. ‘HP plans to release a preview version later this year’, as per its official website.
HP has lined up a new series of cloud products and services which has been listed below:
HP’s OpenStack Technology Indemnification Program: Protects qualified customers using HP Helion OpenStack code from third-party patent, copyright and trade-secret infringement claims directed to OpenStack code alone or in combination with Linux code.
HP Helion OpenStack Professional Services: A new practice made up of HP’s experienced team of consultants, engineers and cloud technologists to assist customers with cloud planning, implementation and operational needs.
HP Helion OpenStack–based cloud services will be made available globally via HP’s partner network of more than 110 service providers worldwide and in HP data centers. HP operates more than 80 data centers in 27 countries. HP plans to provide OpenStack-based public cloud services in 20 data centers worldwide over the next 18 months.
“Customer challenges today extend beyond cloud. They include how to manage, control and scale applications in a hybrid environment that spans multiple technology approaches,” highlighted Martin Fink, executive Vice President and Chief Technology officer, HP.
