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HP is offering enhanced HP Converged Cloud offerings across a range of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions built on OpenStack. The move is seen as an extension of the company's commitment to the OpenStack community and an advancement of open standards. HP is recognized as one of the OpenStack project's main contributors. The corporation's support has helped develop a scalable cloud platform that is now capable of managing mission-critical workloads.
HP CloudSystem 7.2, the latest version of the company's private cloud solution, now offers OpenStack technology that allow companies to utilize resources directly from HP CloudSystem on a pay-as-you-go basis. HP has also introduced two new HP CloudSystem Bursting Activation Services that enable users to easily install and configure cloud-bursting capabilities.
With HP CloudSystem 7.2, HP is providing a total solution. The company offers support staff that help customers configure HP CloudSystem software for cloud-bursting. HP also educates IT staff on operating and managing HP's bursting technology. The company has also introduced HP Cloud Messaging, a service that enables developers to build fault-tolerant applications by duplicating messages on multiple servers.
"Enterprises are embracing open-source cloud solutions to increase workload portability and avoid vendor lock-in," said Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager, Converged Cloud, HP. "HP provides the industry's most comprehensive hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack across private and public cloud environments."
