HP announced its Converged Cloud on Tuesday, taking a hybrid delivery approach with a portfolio based on a common architecture spanning traditional IT, private, managed and public clouds. The company is targeting the enterprise in its move to extend the power of the cloud.

HP focused on three pillars with its Converged Cloud: choice, confidence and consistency. Choice comes through an open, standards-based approach supporting multiple hypervisors, operating systems and development environments. HP is offering its management and security offering to drive confidence, and consistency comes through a single, common architecture.

Running Unapproved Cloud Solutions

HP commissioned research that reveals organizations are undergoing major shifts in how services are delivered. HP's studies also highlight how cloud offerings are increasingly being sourced without IT department approvals.

Specifically, the survey indicated that nearly half of enterprises had departments running non-IT-sanctioned cloud solutions. A full 18 percent indicated they were unsure. With the projected use of private and public cloud models doubling by 2020, HP said successful organizations will need to find a way to embrace these solutions without adding more complexity and risk to their environments.

With all this in mind, HP is rolling out new Converged Cloud offerings. The first in the portfolio is HP Public Infrastructure as a Service. This will debut as a public beta on May 10. The solution offers on-demand compute instances or virtual machines, scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content to end users. HP will also roll out a relational database for MySQL and a block storage service that supports movement of data from one compute instance to another on May 10.

A Crucial Segment for HP

We caught up with Laura DiDio, principal analyst at Information Technology Intelligence Consulting, to get her take on HP entering a market that Amazon has pushed so hard to dominate. As she sees it, HP's decision to launch the new HP Converged Cloud service comes as no surprise and makes perfect sense. (continued...)

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