HP has extended its converged cloud offerings in a move it says will help customers succeed in a hybrid world.
According to HP, the new solutions will provide the foundation to drive agility, speed, innovation and lower costs.
Solutions introduced span private, managed and public cloud environments, and include HP CloudSystem, HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) 3.1, HP Continuous Delivery Automation (CDA) 1.1, new and enhanced HP Cloud Services, and two new offerings for communication service providers (CSPs) and manufacturers.
In his keynote address, Bill Veghte, COO at HP, said the company is committed to delivering cloud capabilities that enterprises can rely on.
"Today's announcements enable customers to more affordably and easily take advantage of the agility of the cloud without jeopardising their enterprise service level agreements."
Veghte said recent research conducted on behalf of HP supports the need for solutions that span various cloud environments. The research revealed that 75% of business and IT executives plan to pursue a hybrid delivery model. It also showed that 65% are concerned with vendor lock-in, and 72% were of the opinion that portability of workloads between cloud models is important to their cloud implementations.
HP CloudSystem enhancements will, according to HP, enable clients to manage cloud requirements for cost, security and availability with an open, extensible architecture for heterogeneous IT environments that now include support for kernel-based virtual machines and virtualisation technologies from HP, Microsoft and VMware, as well as physical provisioning for server blades.
In addition, he said they will have instant access to additional capacity and manage uneven service demands on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis through new HP CloudSystem bursting capabilities.
Reduced administration time was cited as another benefit, as was the ability to accelerate development of service offerings with an expanded HP Cloud Maps portfolio that includes 50 new pre-packaged application templates.
A new version of HP CSA - HP CSA 3.1 - provides clients with a comprehensive, unified cloud management platform for brokering and managing enterprise-grade applications and infrastructures specifically for cloud services.
According to Veghte, pressure from the competition is driving enterprises to deploy high-quality applications in less time.
"HP CDA 1.1 fully automates the application release process, enabling clients to deliver high-quality applications by eliminating delays traditionally caused by manual hand-offs between teams during the application life cycle."
Additional functionality in HP Cloud Services include the general availability of HP Cloud Compute, a pay-as-you-go model that allows users to deploy and customise compute instances on demand.
Also, the advancement of HP Cloud Block Storage, a storage solution that enables users to easily move data from one compute instance to another, to public beta.
Another improvement, HP Cloud Application platform as a service (PaaS), enables enterprises, developers and independent software vendors to focus on application development and deployment.
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