The Cloud or On-Premises: HP Says Why Not Both
As I have discussed in several articles in this Blog, the concern over security has been a huge hurdle for most enterprises when considering whether to adopt Cloud Computing. There also is the simply reticence to change. David Needle discusses this in his article in ServerWatch entitled HP Pushes ‘Instant On’ Vision of Enterprise Cloud Services and explores an ingenious response to the resistance to change developed by HP. Perhaps the best way to describe this new development in Cloud Computing is to call it a hybrid approach. HP also offers the consulting services that will assist the enterprise to implement and manage these services. Needle’s article is peppered with quotes from Sandeep Johri, vice president of enterprise strategy and industry solutions at HP, and from a company spokesman. I think the fastest and most direct way to describe this approach and the services to implement it is to read exactly what they say about it. Here are some select quotes and you can make the determination if this could be the game-changer for the adoption of Cloud Computing:
“Part of our vision is about transforming old applications, not necessarily to the cloud, but to make them more available using new frameworks that can be accessed as a service.”
“We think the cloud needs to be more than the standard definition of on-demand services. An enterprise needs a level of security commitments and service quality commitments, among other attributes we believe are necessary.”
"The cloud can be something you use to augment other parts of your business. For example, for some of our airline customers we do 'ticketing as a service.' Those companies get billed on a per passenger basis and they don't get billed for servers -- the backend infrastructure is all handled by HP.
"From an instant-on perspective, an airline might just want the ticketing aspect, which we let them get right away without buying new infrastructure, but they may also want to keep a lot of other IT functions in house, and this program lets them do that."
"We do medical claims processing for 20 states in the U.S. and we get paid on a per claim basis. We process over a $100 billion in claims every year," he said. "We don't call it software as a service, but that's effectively what it is.”
And on the hybrid delivery services that implement this approach:
"This offering provides clients with a patent-pending, model-driven framework to introduce hybrid delivery concepts into their existing environments.”
"The optimal architecture for the enterprise is a hybrid architecture, not everything is moving to the cloud or staying in-house. At the end of the day, IT needs to deliver services and some of those are best delivered in-house in a traditional single-tenancy environment, some in the cloud and some outsourced. We believe HP can bring optimization across multiple dimensions.”