Although neither HP nor ActiveState offered that one, HP special Stackato due to the fact that it had a interface manufactured around usability, at the time of Cloud Foundry (the launch supply job) supplied a order type graphical user interface. Eucalyptus, which HP bought last year as a way to run an Amazon-compatible private cloud in companies’ existing data centers, is also part of Helion, as is a distribution of the OpenStack open-source cloud software.
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“The Stackato PaaS solution strengthens the HP Helion portfolio and reinforces HP’s commitment to delivering customers open source solutions that help accelerate their transition to hybrid clouds”, asserted Bill Hilf, senior vice president of product and service management for HP’s Cloud department, in prepared remarks.
After the acquisition closes, which is expected to occur sometime in Q4 this year, HP will integrate Stackato into the Helion Development Platform.
Consolidation in the cloud computing market continued this week with Hewlett Packard scooping up PaaS product Stackato.
HP is to acquire ActiveState’s Stackato business for an undisclosed sum, which the company said would give a boost to its hybrid cloud strategy.
HP is putting Stackato inside its Helion portfolio of cloud tools. Stackato and HP have partnered in the past, so the move is not entirely a surprise.
HP today announced that it has agreed to buy the Stackato business from ActiveState.
Despite HP’s somewhat laggard standing in the market (it wasn’t even included in the latest Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant), the company does have a robust offering, with a focus on enabling hybrid cloud computing. The Cloud Foundry project originated inside VMware.
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ActiveState is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, while Pivotal Software is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Stackato competes with PaaS offerings including Red Hat’s OpenShift, Salesforce’s Heroku, Engine Yard, Google App Engine, Apprenda, and Microsoft’s Azure.
