<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/barbdarrow/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Sooooo, what's new with HP's cloud strategy?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Look! Hewlett-Packard is doing something with Eucalyptus after all, at least according to a new web page touting <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/helion-eucalyptus-overview.html">HP Helion Eucalyptus</a>, the &#8220;Open. Agile. Secure AWS-compatible private cloud.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/09/11/hp-buys-eucalyptus-as-cloud-consolidation-commences-for-real/">HP bought Eucalyptus in September</a>, put that company&#8217;s CEO, Marten Mickos, in charge of the overall HP cloud business and things went pretty quiet. Until this week, when I reported that <a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/hp-reorgs-cloud-biz-as-marten-mickos-cedes-key-responsibilities/">Mickos was ceding his leadership role</a> and the aforementioned page appeared.</p>
<p>An <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/hp/">HP</a> spokesman confirmed that it is a new page, and is &#8220;fully in line&#8221; with HP&#8217;s hybrid cloud push and previous pledge to support AWS customers. Most of the page&#8217;s links route back to the original Eucalyptus web site.</p>
<p>I still have <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/09/12/does-eucalyptus-give-hp-carte-blanche-on-aws-compatibility/">so many questions. </a> Will HP&#8217;s OpenStack-based Helion private cloud also offer AWS API compatibility?  HP pulled planned support for those APIs <a href="https://gigaom.com/2013/12/06/interesting-hp-nixes-amazon-ec2-api-support-at-least-in-its-public-cloud/">from its public cloud </a>two years ago. Will it reverse that course?</p>
<p>And most intriguingly, will HP &#8212; which is a long-time and sometimes irritated Microsoft partner &#8212; decide to de-emphasize its own public cloud aspirations and instead throw in more fully with <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> Azure? Hey, anything is possible.</p>
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