HP recently introduced its updated Converged Cloud offerings. As a part of the updated portfolio, HP is integrating OpenStack technology to deliver enterprise-grade solutions across its private, public and hybrid cloud portfolio.
The enhanced offerings include HP’s CloudSystem 7.2, the company’s flagship private cloud solution that now features the OpenStack technology integrated into it. According to the company the solution leverages OpenStack technology to enable support of “bursting” capabilities and KVM resource pools. This would allow enterprises to tap external resources directly from HP’s CloudSystem for pay-as-you-go capacity.
Additionally, the company introduced two new CloudSystem Bursting Activation Services that will allow enterprises and service providers to reliably and quickly install and configure cloud-bursting capabilities. HP experts can help clients configure the CloudSystem software needed to burst from one HP CloudSystem to another, providing access to additional capacity across multiple CloudSystems and enabling service providers to deliver on-demand capacity to customers. The company can also educate IT staff on operating and managing the CloudSystem bursting technology to simplify the start-up of hybrid clouds and accelerate efficient resource use.
The company is also expanding its public cloud portfolio with new HP Cloud Messaging, available as a service to enable developers to build more fault-tolerant applications and reduce application downtime by duplicating messages on multiple servers. Using the OpenStack Marconi API standard, Cloud Messaging will serve as an intermediary for trading information between applications by offering language and framework independence without any system installation or configuration.
According to the release, to support the need that many larger organizations and service providers have for enterprise-class storage, HP submitted to the OpenStack Foundation a blueprint and software for orchestration and provisioning of fibre channel storage in private and hybrid cloud deployments. In line with this contribution, the company’s Converged Storage portfolio—including HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and StoreVirtual Storage — now supports OpenStack technology across both iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols, promising to provide the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of a cloud-based open-source platform to customers with mission-critical environments and high resiliency requirements.
“Enterprises are embracing open-source cloud solutions to increase workload portability and avoid vendor lock-in,” said V Ramachandran, Country Head, Converged Infrastructure Solution, HP India. “HP provides the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack across private and public cloud environments.”
While CloudSystem 7.2 is now available worldwide, CloudSystem Bursting Activation Services will be available worldwide this summer direct from HP Technology Services and authorized channel partners. Pricing would vary according to location and implementation. While Cloud Messaging is now available in private beta, the OpenStack drivers for the company’s 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage offerings are available in the next version of the OpenStack platform, Grizzly, which was released by the OpenStack community in April.
