HP launches Converged Cloud for standards-based SaaS

The company said the new delivery method enabled companies to have a full vendor choice, through an "open, standards-based approach". The research will support multiple hypervisors and development environments, as so then as different operating systems.

David Chalmers, chief research officer for enterprise storage and servers at HP UK & Ireland, told Computerworld UK: "We don't want to be tying people into using one vendor stack. That's a key way this is different from what else is out there – many vendors are going the proprietary route."

HP said the system was the industry's "first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture spanning traditional IT, private, managed and public clouds". It encompasses HP software and infrastructure and the OpenStack innovation.

Bill Veghte, chief strategy officer at HP, added that the "convergence of cloud computing and mobile connectivity" was "changing the way infrastructures are built, applications are developed and information is delivered".

The Converged Cloud include HP's new Cloud Maps

Other systems forming the Converged Cloud include HP's new Cloud Maps, providing pre-packaged application templates, as then as HP Service Virtualisation 2.0, aimed at enabling businesses to test the quality and performance of cloud or mobile applications without disrupting production systems.

Additionally, HP's new Virtual Application Networks will be aimed at speeding application deployment, automating management and raising network service levels across the HP FlexNetwork architecture.

Two new services are as well being launched. HP Virtual Network Protection Service aims to use best practices to set the baseline for security at the network virtualisation management layer, and its Network Cloud Optimisation Service aims to help customers enhance their network to improve cloud-based service delivery.

For businesses that do not want to manage their own clouds, HP has announced Enterprise Cloud Services, an outsourced offering.

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