HP Confines the Cloud for Enterprises
Eventually the idea of cloud computing will become an accepted part of the information technology ecosystem - but it will be just one of many tools in the IT arsenal, according to HP. To stake its claim on the idea of pooled commodity computing resources, HP is hosting a series of webinars for its customers that explain how it sees the cloud fitting into the corporate IT mix (see chart).
Aspects of the strategy are really compelling, notably the vision held by Russ Daniels, CTO of HP’s Cloud Service Strategy, of the cloud as a sort of unified, persistent repository for data that applications or people can access. But aside from some vague nods to the benefits of accessing information in the clouds (such as with web-based email) most of HP’s detailed talk of clouds in the first webinar was depressingly similar to the idea of service-oriented architecture. HP offered clouds as merely a means to deliver IT as a service inside the enterprise.
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