<?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[HP fine-tunes its multi-cloud pitch]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>It must be really interesting to work at Hewlett-Packard these days. Not only is the company <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/11/25/hp-ceo-biggest-corporate-split-up-ever-is-no-distraction/">breaking itself in half</a>, it&#8217;s making <a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/03/02/yup-hps-buying-aruba-for-about-3b/">multi-billion-dollar acquisitions</a> and it&#8217;s balancing an array of cloud offerings. Oh, and it just shook up cloud management, with <a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/hp-reorgs-cloud-biz-as-marten-mickos-cedes-key-responsibilities/">Marten Mickos turning key responsibilities over to three other execs</a>, including Bill Hilf,  SVP of HP Helion product management.</p>
<p>As of now, <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/hp/">HP</a> is fielding two private cloud frameworks. Eucalyptus (or, <a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/02/25/sooooo-whats-new-with-hps-cloud-strategy/">as reported last week</a>, Helion Eucalyptus) is for people who want compatibility with Amazon Web Services APIs. Helion OpenStack is apparently for everyone else.</p>
<p>These two offerings <a href="http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Grounded-in-the-Cloud/Announcing-New-Releases-of-HP-Helion-Solutions/ba-p/6715415#.VPXVirHTmM8">got point upgrades this week</a>. Helion OpenStack 1.1, for example, features better high-availability features, and better support for running Windows workloads (with Microsoft backstopping HP&#8217;s own support.) Helion Eucalyptus 4.1 gets an &#8220;<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/">AWS CloudFormation</a> compatible service&#8221; to make it easier for customers to move orchestration templates from AWS to HP Helion clouds without rewriting or a ton of tweaking. And Helion Development Environment (aka HP&#8217;s version of the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service) gets better logging, more dashboards to track usage quotas and system patches.</p>
<div id="attachment_918512" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 721px"><a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/hp-fine-tunes-its-multi-cloud-pitch/bill-hilf-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-918512"><img  src="https://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bill-hilf-2.jpg?quality=80&#038;strip=all&#038;w=721&#038;h=456" alt="Bill Hilf, SVP of Helion Cloud product management for HP." width="721" height="456" data-attribution="HP" class=" aligncenter" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bill Hilf, SVP of Helion Cloud product management for HP.</p></div>
<h3 id="no-aws-apis-for-openstack3">No AWS APIs for OpenStack</h3>
<p>HP will not add AWS API compatibility to Helion Openstack, Hilf said in an interview Tuesday. Instead, he said, the company will offer <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/cloud-service-automation/">Cloud Service Automation</a> atop the various clouds &#8212; Helion Eucalyptus, Helion OpenStack, <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/amazon/">Amazon</a> Web Services, <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> Azure, <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/vmware/">VMware</a> &#8212; that will give users the proverbial &#8220;one pane of glass&#8221; to manage them all.</p>
<p>As is usually the case, the rationale cited was customer feedback. &#8220;We sat in focus groups and customers said they didn&#8217;t want [AWS] S3 APIs embedded in OpenStack. They wanted an OpenStack cloud and an AWS-compatible cloud and a VMware-based cloud and to be able to move stuff between them,&#8221; Hilf said.</p>
<p>&#8220;So instead of burning huge time and resources in community debates, we decided, why not just let them build those different clouds and manage them all across the top?&#8221;</p>
<h3 id="a-public-cloud-but-not-an-aws-3">A public cloud, but not an AWS rival</h3>
<p><a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/hp/">HP</a> continues to offer public cloud, but the positioning of that has definitely changed. Its product was once positioned (a year or so ago) as an enterprise-worthy public cloud to compete directly with Amazon Web Services, but that&#8217;s no longer the sales pitch.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are not building a general-purpose cloud at that scale for any type of workload,&#8221; Hilf said. &#8220;We are focused on building private, managed clouds that can interoperate. We do have public cloud but we&#8217;re not aiming to compete with the big three. We want to interoperate with them.&#8221;</p>
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