A diagram from a HP whitepaper shows its exisiting HP CloudSystem infrastructure
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP (www.hp.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched its HP Cloud Services private beta program. HP says it has made early access available for users to test and provide input on its two initial cloud services: HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage.
Some of the details to HP’s cloud strategy were leaked in March through chief technologist Scott McClellan’s LinkedIn profile, and hinted toward open source and Amazon-like components.
According to the blog post, both are based on HP’s hardware and software and integrate OpenStack through its web-based UI and RESTful APIs. HP joined OpenStack in July and is a sponsor of the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference.
HP says “public cloud services should be open and transparent from end-to-end across APIs, infrastructure and software stack.”
According to the post, HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage are both pay-as-you-go services that can be quickly deployed.
HP Cloud Compute enables users to deploy compute instances on demand and customize instances to handle workloads.
HP Cloud Object Storage provides scalable online storage capacity on-demand, and is ideal for archiving and backing up data, according to HP. It is also able to serve static content for web applications and store large public or private data sets.
A report by ZDNet points to some similarity to Amazon’s EC2 and S3 and says it looks like “an AWS wannabe.”
GigaOm calls the OpenStack angle “sexy” but says it would be difficult to compete with AWS, though if anyone was up to the task, it would be a giant like HP or Dell.
According to the announcement, HP “collected some great feedback” during its first development stage, of which has influenced the private beta offering.
“Now we would like to hear from more of you and get your input on features, functionality and the overall experience, in order to ensure that we continue to create an offering that matches your needs,” writes Emil Sayegh, VP, HP cloud services.
HP says it intends to extend its cloud offerings to private, hybrid and public architectures.
To sign up for the free beta to develop, test and run applications, visit www.hpcloud.com.
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