Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services

| January 28, 2011 | Comments (1)

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week stepped up its cloud computing effort by launching a portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and indicated plans to jump into public cloud hosting.

The company has lacked a strong cloud computing focus but now intends to move forward more aggressively, HP officials said. HP will do so by offering various private cloud services as well as on-premises hardware and

software. Also, the company will offer hybrid clouds by bridging its on- and off-premises cloud offerings. And it will let its partners offer cloud services with its new hardware and software.

HP has trailed its rivals in the systems market such as Dell, IBM and the VCE Alliance consisting of VMware, Cisco and EMC, said Pund-IT analyst Charles King. “This is a welcome shift toward a more integrated cloud strategy for

HP,” King said. “HP’s cloud strategy has gone through a number of iterations over the last couple of years.”

Officials at HP said that’s about to change. “HP is now a full cloud services provider,” said Patrick Harr, VP of strategy and solutions for the company’s enterprise business..

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