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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

Lauren Nelson , 
Dave Bartoletti , 
Richard Fichera , 
John Rymer
 and  three contributors
May 05, 2015

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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