Trends Report

Brief: Did HP Bail Out Of Public Cloud?

We Expect HP To Reduce Its Commitment To Public Cloud But Continue To Focus On Private And Hybrid Cloud Solutions

May 5th, 2015
Lauren Nelson, VP, Research Director
Lauren Nelson VP, Research Director
Dave Bartoletti, null
Dave Bartoletti
Richard Fichera, null
Richard Fichera
John Rymer, null
John Rymer
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Peter Burris , Michael Caputo

Summary

HP's cloud executive team generated some media speculation on April 8, 2015, when it indicated that it can't compete directly with the hyperscale public cloud platforms. Does this mean HP is exiting the public cloud? No. HP remains committed to private cloud, OpenStack, software-defined and converged data center platforms, and helping clients extend data center workloads to a range of public clouds — only one of which will be HP's. Our cloud analysts make sense of HP's comments and inform infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals on how they should respond.

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