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HP brings private cloud solution to help enterprises

HP has announced HP Helion Rack, a new pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested private cloud solution

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BANGALORE, INDIA: HP has announced HP Helion Rack, a new pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested private cloud solution, based on OpenStack and Cloud Foundry technologies integrated with HP server hardware.

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HP Helion Rack is designed to help enterprise IT departments speed their cloud deployments, avoiding months designing, developing and deploying a private cloud, by integrating cloud management software and industry infrastructure with best practices.

HP Helion Rack enables rapid infrastructure provisioning for development and production workloads, is optimized for hosting applications that require secure, compliant and performance tuned infrastructure, and provides a platform for developing, designing and deploying cloud native applications.

“The demand from lines of business and dev/test teams for fast delivery of flexible compute resources is putting many IT departments under intense pressure,” said Owen Rogers, senior analyst, Digital Economics, 451 Research. “While IT departments understand these needs, they don’t always have the time, resources, infrastructure, or skills needed to meet demand. HP Helion Rack can help overcome the cloud and OpenStack software skills barrier that delays many companies private cloud deployments.”

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HP Helion Rack provides a complete private cloud, with integrated infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities that support cloud native applications.

Key features/benefits include:

· Cloud economics for private cloud deployments – Integrated open source cloud software and industry standard hardware accelerate private cloud implementations with a platform designed to provide and optimize towards the cloud economics enterprises demand.

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· Rapid deployment – A factory built solution utilizing best practices and installed onsite by HP experts eliminate months of design, testing and tuning.

· Simplified management – A common software and hardware platform architecture simplifies support, administration, updates and maintenance.

· Easy scaling – Easy to scale-out with additional storage and compute nodes and scale up within each node.

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· Workload flexibility – A flexible workload infrastructure enables customers to meet demanding performance requirements for low-latency and high transactions, while managing of security and compliance requirements.

· Faster cloud-native application development – Easy access to integrated application services, such as database and messaging services, that add scalability and high availability to applications with multiple language and framework support.

· Open architecture – Based on OpenStack technology and Cloud Foundry software, enabling flexibility in workload hosting, application code, management tools and costs.

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