VP accidentally posts HP cloud strategy

A senior HP exec accidentally revealed company's cloud computing initiative details while updating his LinkedIn profile, reports The Times of India.

Scott McClellan, VP of cloud services updated his LinkedIn profile with reportedly details on exactly what HP is building.

The details were published by The Registerbefore McClellan pulled it back. Here is an excerpt from McClellan's LinkedIn profile as published by The Register:

“HP 'object storage service': built from scratch, distributed system, designed to solve for cost, scale, and reliability without compromise. HP 'compute', 'networking' and 'block storage' service: an innovative and highly differentiated approach to cloud computing - a declarative/model-based approach where users often provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management.”

Meanwhile, CRN reports that HP has refused to comment about the cloud computing leaked plans.

In an e-mail to CRN, HP refused to comment on how long the cloud plans were on McClellan's LinkedIn page; whether that information was accurate; if McClellan will face any disciplinary action; or how the data made it to McClellan's LinkedIn profile in the first place.

McClellan is responsible for driving the technical strategy, architecture and business direction as a co-founder for HP Cloud Services.

Read Write Web adds that to this point, HP has been relatively tight-lipped to the specifics of what its proposed cloud operation would offer.

The primary thought has been that HP would be joining rival Dell in creating a Microsoft Azure-based platform.

Yet, according to The Register, there was no mention of anything correlated to Azure in McClellan's profile. It would likely that HP would integrate .NET and C# functionality into its cloud plans given the close working relationship between Microsoft and HP over the years, even given the recent theoretical rift created when HP bought Palm and WebOS.

“Java, Ruby, and other open source languages” could mean that HP will drive for ubiquity in its cloud platforms while also hedging its bets.