HP to drive cloud computing with Hybrid Delivery solutions

Ann Livermore, executive vice president at HP Enterprise Business, explains that, ideally, cloud computing is an important and growing platform for 'instant-on enterprises', "where everything and everyone is connected". However, she agrees that this image of computing only works if IT environments are flexible, automated, able to adjust quickly to changing demand – and secure. And, to date, the perceived problem has been around the latter security, as well as availability and ease of integration. Hence, the new HP Hybrid Delivery solutions, which provide enterprise-grade cloud computing, while meeting the specific needs of businesses she says. "Cloud computing is going mainstream and HP is leading the way: HP has the enterprise experience, breadth of portfolio and global service delivery organisation to lead our clients through this transformation." Livermore lists the new elements as HP Enterprise Cloud Services—Compute, which "delivers private cloud as a service" from HP's data centres, alongside HP CloudSystem, which she claims is "the most complete, integrated system to build, manage and consume services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments". In fact, the latter combines HP's Converged Infrastructure with its HP Cloud Service Automation software, together delivering unified security, governance and compliance across applications, as well as physical and virtual infrastructure.