HP Announces Converged Cloud

HP has recently announced the release of HP Converged Cloud, a hybrid delivery approach and portfolio. This unified communications portfolio is based on a common architecture, and is built for the enterprise, extending the cloud across infrastructure, applications, and information.

With the HP Converged Cloud, users gain an open, standards-based approach that supports multiple hypervisors, operating systems, and development environments, not to mention a heterogenous infrastructure and extensible partner ecosystem, and consistency through a single common architecture. It brings together HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Converged Management and Security, and Converged information and hardened OpenStack technology into a management and security offering that spans applications, infrastructure, and information.

HP Cloud Services will deliver HP Public Infrastructure as a Service, its initial offering, as a public beta in early May. It provides on-demand compute instances or virtual machines, as well as scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content. At the same time, HP Cloud Services will introduce a relational database service for MySQL and a block storage service to support movement of data across compute instances as a private beta.

"HP is a credible IT player that now takes strides into the cloud," says Jason Andersson, UCStrategies UC Expert. "Private clouds using Public cloud technology for a single company is expected to increase the most this year. UC and office applications are among the top features that companies look for from public cloud providers, which opens up the need for strong hybrid solutions, where HP already is a strong partner for IT departments."

For more information, visit www.hp.com.