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HP Cloud
Hewlett-Packard Company
Websitewww.myhpcloud.com

HP Cloud was a set of

IT resources to create hybrid clouds, or a mix of private and public cloud environments, from around 2011 to 2016.[1]

History

HP Converged Cloud was announced in April 2012.[2] HP Converged Cloud is managed under a Hewlett-Packard business unit established in 2013 named The Converged Cloud unit, headed by Saar Gillai as Senior Vice President and general manager of Converged Cloud.[3]

HP Public Cloud was announced on March 14, 2011, and launched as a

DNS as a Service was moved into general availability on July 1, 2013.[7]

The two business units were merged in late 2013 and announced at the HP Discover event in Barcelona, Spain.[8]

On May 7, 2014, HP announced the HP Helion portfolio of products and services, and stated that the company planned to invest over $1 billion in cloud. HP Helion included HP's existing cloud products, new OpenStack technology-based services, and both professional and support services to assist businesses in building and managing hybrid IT environments.[9]

On October 21, 2015, HP announced that it would shut down the HP Cloud in January 2016.[10][11] In October 2023, Amaryllo resumes HP cloud business with an introduction of HP cloud storage service through a trademark licensing agreement with HP Inc. [12]

Cloud computing challenges

Moving between clouds

Business organizations that want to use cloud computing have a choice of using a

developer.[13] The first would opt for a private cloud for security peace of mind, while the web developer would choose a public cloud offering.[13] Most companies would operate a mixture the two, also known as hybrid cloud delivery.[13][14]

Employing a hybrid delivery cloud strategy

geographic location to another in major storms.[17]

There can be different types of hybrid clouds for specific tasks.[18] The Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model can be a hybrid cloud in that it could use operating systems and virtualization technologies from both a public and private cloud infrastructure to provide cloud services. Other models that mix on-premises cloud with public cloud technologies include Platform as a service (PaaS), which includes infrastructure services combined with development tools and middleware; and Software as a service (SaaS), which is used to develop packaged software.[18]

However, moving data in the cloud can be a difficult procedure.[19] In the case of Software as a Service (SaaS), it is difficult particularly if the incumbent cloud provider used proprietary software or if it altered an open-source application.[19]

A way to mitigate cloud migration difficulties is to architect applications for the cloud that reduce or eliminate the dependencies between the cloud application stack and the capabilities of the cloud service provider.[20] Another way is to select only generic and higher-level applications to move to the cloud in the first place.[20] Another method is to select open standards for cloud computing.[20]

A best practice for avoiding cloud migration problems is to use a management platform that can support applications in any environment a user organization is likely to use.[21]

Cloud professional services

Companies engage cloud professional services consultants to help them plan how to incorporate cloud services into their business operations. Consultants advise businesses on whether to use public, private, or a hybrid delivery model, and how they should implement or consume those delivery models.

Hybrid cloud.[23]

According to research conducted by HP in 2013, 43 percent of companies surveyed indicated that they wanted strategic guidance on how to deploy cloud.

International Data Corporation, a market research firm, the authors state that cloud professional services can help companies map out both a short-term and a long-term strategy for how to use cloud in a way that aids their business goals.[22]

The most common reason businesses engage cloud professional services are for assistance with incorporating cloud technology into existing IT environments, and to plan how to implement cloud, according to a study published in February 2014 by the independent research firm Technology Business Research, Inc. According to published reports, the use of cloud professional services indicates that businesses do not have adequate internal resources that are knowledgeable about implementing cloud.[25]

HP Cloud characteristics and components

Converged infrastructure

HP Cloud follows the premise of converged infrastructure: the integration of compute, storage, and networking components and technologies into self-provisioning pools of shared resources, and supported by IT services.[26] One of the benefits of a data center based on converged infrastructure, including a converged infrastructure data center that delivers cloud services, is that manual tasks can be automated, thus reducing the time and cost to carry them out.[27]

Open standards

HP Cloud is neutral regarding the manufacturer of cloud components used, such as virtual machine hypervisors, operating systems, and development environments.[28] For example, HP Cloud supports all hypervisors, including those from VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat.[29]

HP Cloud is based on OpenStack technology.

RackSpace and Nebula.[28] The benefit is that user organization can decouple their applications from being tied to a particular hardware platform. User organizations may want to do this when they want to move key workloads to another Infrastructure-as-a-Service supplier.[28]

Components

Main article: HP CloudSystem

HP CloudSystem is a component of HP Cloud. It enables user organizations to burst workloads to external or internal cloud resources in times of increased workloads or when they want additional compute resources.[32] This function is known as cloud bursting.[33]

Industry sector packages

HP Cloud includes a number of packages for different industry sectors. For instance, HP Cloud Services for Airlines integrates Software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to the airline industry. Applications for that include HP Passenger Service Solution, which integrates travel and transportation industry applications into a single airline booking and travel SaaS environment.[34]

HP Helion Professional Services

HP Professional Services consultants work with user organizations to help them create cloud environments. Businesses that engage with HP Professional Services are those that want to use hybrid cloud and other cloud configurations.[23] These businesses receive advice on how they can implement cloud in a consistent manner and how to get value from their cloud investment. Businesses also receive advice on how to manage the cloud.[22]

Services

  • HP Cloud Advisory Services – Delivers information on the possible uses for cloud services and solutions and identifies opportunities to begin implementing cloud.
  • HP Cloud Strategy Services – Develops a business case for moving to cloud, plans how to shift some resources from traditional IT to cloud resources, and designs a multi-year strategy on how to incorporate private, public, and hybrid cloud with traditional IT environments.
  • HP Applications Transformation to Cloud Services – Delivers design, development, migration, and testing services to enable new and existing applications and business processes to run in the cloud.[35]
  • HP Cloud Design Services – Provides user organizations with recommended practices for using cloud and frameworks for building detailed architectures and designs for cloud solutions.[23]
  • HP Cloud Implementation Services – Helps build, integrate, migrate, and deploy cloud solutions based on detailed design and architecture with a transition to operations.
  • HP Cloud Operation Services – Provides support services for a company's cloud environment.
  • HP Cloud Education Services – Trains and certifies a company's IT staff and third-party partners to help them architect, integrate, and administer cloud solutions.
  • HP Helion OpenStack Professional Services – Consultants help a company plan, implement, and run HP clouds in a hybrid IT environment based on the OpenStack technology.[36]

HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud

Multitenant architecture.[37]
The VPC can be configured on demand and allows one VPC user to be isolated from other VPC users.

HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud is a managed cloud providing VPC features. It includes security features for businesses that connect to a public cloud through an on-site network, using

Virtual LAN (VLAN) are supplied with HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud. This provides a method for businesses to connect through the Firewall from their on-site network into the VPC, so that the VPC appears to be part of the on-site network.[38]

Businesses that use HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud receive

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can be provided for HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud.[38]

HP As-a-Service Solution for

Microsoft Dynamics CRM can use CRM software in a secure fashion and not pay up front for the infrastructure to run it.[41]

Sample installations

In November 2013, HP Enterprise Services opened in Barcelona the first of two planned data centers to host VPC in Spain.[42] According to published reports, the data centers provide disaster recovery services and high availability.[42] Acting as an investment partner in the project, the government of Catalonia has stated that it intends to use the HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud to reduce by 25 to 30 percent the costs of its Centre for Telecommunications and Information Technology.[42]

The offshore drilling company Seadrill migrated its worldwide data center operations to HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud in July 2013. According to published reports, Seadrill chose the HP product over competing IBM and Capgemini products because it believed the HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud was less expensive and configured so that Seadrill could continue to run legacy applications in its own physical data center.[37]

UNIT4 Business Software announced in February 2014 that it has contracted to use HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud as a secure method to deliver services to its education clients in the United Kingdom.[43]

HP Public Cloud

HP Public Cloud was a

public cloud service from Hewlett-Packard
(HP) that offered compute, storage, and platform services that were accessible via the public Internet to developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), SMBs, and enterprises of all sizes (including public sector). HP built its cloud infrastructure using OpenStack technology, an open-source cloud infrastructure project, and planned to deliver end-to-end, converged cloud capabilities that let users manage their cloud deployments across hybrid, private, managed private, and public cloud delivery models with HP Public Cloud offering an open, interoperable, intuitive, and reliable public cloud option.

Cloud solutions

Cloud products

Partner ecosystem

HP Public Cloud had created a Cloud Partner Ecosystem[47] that enabled partners to provide services that use the HP Public Cloud infrastructure. The Solution Partners program was designed to help Solution Partners enhance their cloud offering and increase exposure to new customers and markets. Solution Partners offered software, applications and cloud services on top of and/or integrated with HP Public Cloud. The program consisted of a set of tools, best practices, documentation, and support.

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