HP will, within two months, a business cloud platform in the air. The service needs to compete with Amazon Web Services. HP does on its cloud platform focus mainly on business applications and services.
That informs Zorawar Singh, senior vice president and director of HP’s clouddivisie, across The street from The New York Times. The new cloud platform will, according to Singh the primary focus on the provision of services for the corporate market, such as databases and analytical software. HP hopes that the other companies as far can get to services and web-based applications on its cloud platform to offer. Thus, the company wants to differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services, currently the leading player in the market for cloud computing.
HP wants in addition to business users, consumers are going to operate through a marketplace for software to open. It again services and applications to purchase or to rent are offered that make use of HP’s cloud infrastructure. The pricing model, however, must still be determined.
The cloud platform HP would currently be tested by partners. Developers should be within the area have been provided with tools to develop web applications build with php, ruby and java. In addition, Hewlett-Packard the ability to provide customers enough options to offer to the cloud platform to remotely manage.
HP has been working more than a year to be a competitor for Amazon Web Services. With the arrival of Meg Whitman as ceo in september, HP, traditionally one of the largest computer manufacturers, are increasingly going to focus on the software and the provision of a public cloud-based would be more of priority. For his services in the field of cloud computing, however successful, would be HP however, more data centers have to build; so far the company has only computer centers in the United States, while Amazon also has data centers in Europe and Asia.