(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology company HP (www.hp.com) has announced an all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment in a month’s time.
According to HP’s Monday announcement, HP CloudStart, delivered by HP Cloud Consulting Services, is the first solution of its kind cabable of deploying a private cloud within 30 days. It is designed to provide all the expertise needed for clients to transform their existing delivery approaches into more efficient shared-services models.
“To better serve the needs of their enterprises, clients are asking us to help them become internal service providers with the ability to deliver applications through a highly flexible private cloud environment,” HP technology services senior vice president and general manager Gary M. Budzinski said in a statement. “With CloudStart, HP is enabling clients to optimize applications for private cloud computing today, while providing a platform for a comprehensive, open and hybrid environment in the future.”
Built on an HP’s integrated “Converged Infrastructure” approach, HP CloudStart promises to simplify and speed private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability to scale and deploy new services automatically.
HP’s open architecture approach enables clients to integrate their private clouds with third-party enterprise portals, public cloud services, usage billing packages and multi-platform resource management.
In what can been seen as a proof of concept, HP teamed up with Intel, Samsung, virtualization software developer VMware and Pittsburgh-based global research university Carnegie Mellon to implement a private cloud environment at Carnegie Mellon based on HP Converged Infrastructure to serve as a test bed for research on cloud computing.
Using HP CloudStart, the university will replace multiple dedicated server clusters with a single cloud environment for performing simulations and data analyses, as well as supporting data storage and data-intensive applications. The environment also features Samsung’s Green DDR3 (double-data-rate three) memory for further energy-efficiency benefits.
“We deployed a cloud environment for a dual purpose: to help our university to better meet an increased need for infrastructure flexibility and to have a production state-of-the-art installation to study in our research on the cloud,” Carnegie Mellon University professor Greg Ganger. “We partnered with HP, VMware, Intel and Samsung to integrate an automated private cloud environment into our existing infrastructure in less than 30 days, providing compute power and storage to several departments with growing needs, as well as a standards-based environment for private cloud research.”
The HP CloudStart solution is currently available in Asia-Pacific including Japan, and is expected to be available globally in December.
