Enterprises can reduce IT maintenance costs by approximately 40 per cent by migrating existing systems to a cloud-based architecture, according to estimates from HP.
To help enterprises realise the benefits of transitioning to a hybrid infrastructure, HP has introduced the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0, as well as enhancements to HP Helion Managed Cloud Services, which manage enterprise workloads in a secure hosted cloud environment.
HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 is the next release of its flagship integrated private cloud solution, combining traditional and cloud native workloads. It expands support for multiple hypervisors and multiple clouds from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, HP Helion Public Cloud, OpenStack technology and VMware, and integrates HP Helion OpenStack and the HP Helion Development Platform to provide an open source platform for cloud native application development and infrastructure.
“Enterprise customers have a range of needs in moving to the cloud—some need to cloud-enable traditional workloads, while others seek to build next generation ‘cloud native’ apps using modern technologies like OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and Docker,” said Aman Dokania, vice president and general manager, HP Cloud Division, Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific and Japan.
“The expanded support for multiple hypervisors and cloud environments in HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 gives enterprises and service providers added flexibility to gain cloud benefits for their existing and new applications.”
HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 is planned for availability later in 2015, either as standalone software supporting a multiple vendor hardware environment or as a fully-integrated blade-based or hyper-converged infrastructure with HP ConvergedSystem.
Also available later this year are the enhancements to HP Helion Managed Cloud Services, which include the launch into beta of HP Helion OpenStack Managed Private Cloud and HP Helion Eucalyptus Managed Private Cloud, which will be consumable as a service via a portal. Also supported will be the development of cloud native applications within a managed cloud service via the HP Helion Development Platform and automation of select virtual private cloud services.
These enhancements, according to HP, will enable faster cloud deployment and proof of concept development through automated provisioning capabilities and support for multiple platforms.