HP has introduced HP Helion, a portfolio of cloud products and services that enable organizations to build, manage and consume workloads in hybrid IT environments. HP Helion incorporates existing HP cloud offerings, new OpenStack technology-based products, and professional and support services under a unified portfolio.
HP Helion is launched to meet the hybrid needs of enterprises worldwide. HP also is extending its commitment to OpenStack technology and hybrid IT delivery – spanning traditional IT, public cloud hosting, private and managed clouds. HP plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years on cloud-related product and engineering initiatives, professional services and expanding HP Helion’s global reach.
As part of the Helion portfolio, HP is introducing several new cloud products and services, including:
- HP Helion OpenStack Community edition – A commercial product line of OpenStack that is delivered, tested and supported by HP. Available immediately, the community edition is a free version ideal for proofs of concept, pilots and basic production workloads. An enhanced commercial edition that addresses the needs of global enterprises and service providers will be released in the coming months.
- HP Helion Development Platform – A Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry, offering IT departments and developers an open platform to build, deploy and manage applications quickly and easily. HP plans to release a preview version later this year.
- HP’s OpenStack Technology Indemnification Program – Protects qualified customers using HP Helion OpenStack code from third-party patent, copyright and trade-secret infringement claims directed to OpenStack code alone or in combination with Linux code.
- HP Helion OpenStack Professional Services – A new practice made up of HP’s experienced team of consultants, engineers and cloud technologists to assist customers with cloud planning, implementation and operational needs.
HP Helion OpenStack-based cloud services will be made available globally via HP’s partner network of more than 110 service providers worldwide and in HP data centers; HP operates more than 80 data centers in 27 countries. The vendor plans to provide OpenStack-based public cloud hosting services in 20 data centers worldwide over the next 18 months. HP will also enable HP PartnerOne for Cloud partners to deliver and resell OpenStack-based cloud services.
The new HP Helion cloud products and services join the company’s existing portfolio of hybrid cloud computing offerings, including HP CloudSystem, HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) software for managing hybrid IT environments, HP’s managed virtual private cloud offering and a range of cloud professional services.
