OpenStack gets HP warming up more

INDIA: HP has announced the commercial availability of HP Helion OpenStack and the HP Helion Development Platform, adding that it will enable organizations to build, consume and manage open, hybrid cloud environments.

HP also introduced what it calls - its first optimized solution for HP Helion – HP Helion Content Depot – a storage solution designed specifically to address the rapid growth in unstructured data, such as images, videos and files.

HP Helion OpenStack is the HP commercial distribution of OpenStack technology, an open source cloud computing platform. HP Helion OpenStack is delivered, tested and supported by HP and is designed to deliver scalable, open-source based, hybrid cloud solutions, the company explains.

It adds further : The HP Helion Development Platform is a development environment, based on Cloud Foundry and optimized for HP Helion OpenStack, offering enterprise developers an open platform to build, deploy and manage scalable cloud native applications quickly. Together, HP Helion OpenStack and the HP Helion Development Platform present a complete Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution for enterprises seeking to deploy hybrid clouds.

“Organizations require open, secure and agile solutions to accelerate cloud adoption,” said Narayanan Chellappan, country director, Cloud Division, HP India. “The HP Helion solutions announced today provide customers with the simplicity, control and responsiveness they require in order to embrace the next wave of hybrid cloud computing.

HP Helion OpenStack provides integration with enterprise applications and tools, cross-platform support for third-party hypervisors, database and software solutions, a predictable upgrade path, and robust management and security capabilities."