by Angela Guess
Barb Darrow of GigaOM reports, “On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard put its public cloud based on the open source OpenStack technology into public beta. The services had been available to a limited number of customers up until now. OpenStack co-founder Rackspace made its OpenStack cloud generally available May 1, as planned. Internap has fielded OpenStack-based services since last fall. Other industry giants, including IBM and Red Hat, are also backing the open-source cloud stack as a hedge against the growing power of Amazon Web Services.”
Darrow continues, “Hewlett-Packard’s offerings include HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network, with pay-as-you-go pricing here. And to position its cloud as a welcoming ecosystem, HP lined up an array of partners including TwinStrata, Panzura, StorSimple and Zmanda in storage. ActiveState, CloudBees, CumuLogic, Engine Yard, and GigaSpaces are aboard as platform as a service (PaaS) providers.”
She goes on, “As Amazon keeps adding more cloud services and as VMware continues to push its own cloud vision powered by vSphere virtualization, the raging debate is whether OpenStack is too late to the party. Backers say cloud adoption is still early and many businesses don’t want to entrust their workloads to Amazon’s public cloud. A variety of other companies, including Tier 3, have launched their own enterprise-grade cloud services.”
photo credit: HP OpenStack
