That same month, within days of signing Helion’s death warrant, Hilf marched out with a new script and declared the OpenStack-based public cloud service would be here to stay.
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“HP’s Helion Public Cloud has just burst”, said Jamie Shepard, senior vice president for health care and strategy at Lumenate, No. 145 on the CRN Solution Provider 500. The official last day for HP’s public cloud services will be on January 31, 2016.
HP has announced another major part of its corporate restructuring with the news that it will be shutting down its Helion public cloud offering next year.
Bill Hilf, the general manager of the firm’s cloud division, said in a statement yesterday: “Our customers are consistently telling us that in order to meet their full spectrum of needs, they want a hybrid combination of efficiently managed traditional IT and private cloud”.
Claiming public cloud remains an important part of its hybrid cloud plans, HP will instead rely on partner clouds to provide this part of the service.
“With these customer needs in mind, we have made the decision to double-down on our private and managed cloud capabilities”.
The exit from the public cloud market will not catch a whole lot of people off guard.
According to Synergy Research Group’s second quarter cloud infrastructure equipment market tracker, HP is leading the way when it comes to selling the hardware that underpins private cloud environments, followed by Cisco, Microsoft, IBM and Dell.
However, HP’s CloudSystem 9.0 platform, announced in June, includes HP Helion Eucalyptus, the AWS-compatible cloud platform which HP acquired previous year. “It’s a software world right now, and HP does not have the software to make a go of public cloud”, he said.
Hilf concluded: “We will continue to innovate and grow in our areas of strength, we will continue to help our partners and to help develop the broader open cloud ecosystem, and we will continue to listen to our customers to understand how we can help them with their entire end-to-end IT strategies”.
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“We also support our PaaS customers wherever they want to run our Cloud Foundry platform – in their own private clouds, in our managed cloud, or in a large-scale public cloud such as AWS or Azure”.
