LinkedIn Accident Provides Tiny Telescope on HP Cloud

Scott McClellan, the CTO and interim VP of engineering of HP's new cloud services business, let slip a few details about HP's if not cloudy cloud plans when he updated his LinkedIn profile.

There's "compute," "networking" and "block storage" described as a "differentiated approach to cloud computing" - "a declarative/model-based approach where users provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management." No mention about any of that being built from scratch.

Future cloud web site with public content

It as well promises a future cloud web site with public content and authenticated user content and a developer experience consisting of "APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby and other open source languages. Fully functional GUI and CLI."

The Register says that it heard that HP means to flesh out more of its cloud vision at VMware's VMworld do in August, which intrinsically leads it to assume that it's using VMware research.

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