HP Unveils Cloud Innovations to Help Customers Thrive in a Hybrid World

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Dec 11, 2013) - HP (NYSE: HPQ) today expanded its cloud portfolio with new solutions and services that offer enterprises greater agility, simplified management and improved security for their hybrid environments.

As enterprises embrace new delivery models, one of the biggest decisions chief information officers (CIOs) need to make on their cloud journey is determining where applications or workloads should live -- on traditional IT or in the cloud. Often, applications will continue to live across multiple environments, and hybrid delivery becomes an imperative. Research indicates that 40 percent of enterprises say they are currently in a hybrid environment⁽¹⁾ and 75 percent of IT executives plan to pursue a hybrid cloud delivery model by 2016.⁽²⁾

HP is focused on delivering hybrid solutions that bridge traditional IT with private, public and managed clouds. New solutions announced this week build on this strategy, including the introduction of the next-generation HP CloudSystem, HP's flagship offering for building and managing private clouds.

HP was recently ranked as a leader in the Forrester Wave report for Private Cloud Solutions:

"HP leads the pack. [It provides] a clean and navigable interface that wraps substantial depth and breadth of capabilities into the fewest number of interfaces," writes Lauren E. Nelson, analyst, in a recent Forrester report. "Unlike other vendors in this space, HP adds functionality into a single interface as a rule without making the overall experience less intuitive." ⁽³⁾

Enterprise-grade, open hybrid cloud solutions and services
The next-generation HP CloudSystem includes a new consumer-inspired user interface, simplified management tools and an improved deployment process that enable customers to set up and deploy a complete private cloud environment in just hours, compared to weeks for other private cloud solutions.⁽⁴⁾ As the foundation of a hybrid cloud solution, HP CloudSystem bursts to multiple public cloud platforms, including three new ones: Microsoft® Windows® Azure, and platforms from Arsys, a European-based cloud computing provider, and SFR, a French telecommunications company.