HP expands Converged Cloud portfolio

Introduced in April, HP Converged Cloud is the industry's first strategy and portfolio based on a single architecture that combines private, managed and public cloud, as well as traditional IT, to create an environment that can rapidly change based on organisational requirements, Market Watch writes.

Recent research conducted on behalf of HP suggests that, by 2020, senior business and technology executives expect their organisations' public and private cloud delivery models to nearly double. However, if not implemented properly, these delivery models could yield cloud silos, creating complexity, risk and vendor lock-in.

One analyst said HP was moving in the right direction by offering users many cloud providers from which to choose, CRN reports.

"Working with the Amazon cloud is a smart move to reduce barriers to adoption for any new set of cloud services," said Al Hilwa, programme director for Applications Development Software at research firm IDC. "Amazon is an early leader in this space and the odds of an organisation [having] deployed applications in the Amazon cloud are high."

HP extended the “cloud bursting” capabilities of HP CloudSystem to deliver instant access to additional capacity through HP cloud services, Amazon Web services and Savvis, Cloud Tweaks notes. A core element of the HP Converged Cloud portfolio, HP CloudSystem provides a complete, integrated and open platform that enables enterprises and service providers to build and manage services across private, managed and public cloud environments.

HP CloudSystem Matrix software enables organisations to reduce cloud deployments from several weeks to one day when building a complete IaaS implementation for virtualised environments. Easily downloaded software runs on all industry-standard servers supported by VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, including HP ProLiant servers.