 HP announced plans to officially close down its public cloud effort and give up on competing with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure in that market. The news came via a blog post written by Bill Hilf, senior VP and GM of HP Cloud. Hilf explained in his blog "a new model to deliver public cloud". He said: "we will sunset our HP Helion Public Cloud offering on January 31, 2016. As we have before, we will help our customers design, build and run the best cloud environments suited to their needs - based on their workloads and their business and industry requirements." With this he added that they will continue to aggressively grow their partner ecosystem and integrate different public cloud environments, big names as mainly being AWS and Microsoft. Hilf announced that HP will focus its resources on their Managed and Virtual Private Cloud offerings. He said that "these offerings will continue to expand, and we will have some very exciting announcements on these fronts in the coming weeks". Read More >> |