Terence Ngai, director of cloud solutions, HP Global Marketing
For many providers today, the development of cloud services is a work in progress. This is the case with HP, for example, which continues to evolve its cloud platform to manage the ever growing variety and complexity of customer scenarios. Since launch of cloud of cloud branded offerings last year, HP has remained convinced of the importance of cloud and the dominance of hybrid models in most user organizations for the foreseeable future. This month, the company released survey findings that corroborate this vision: commissioned research by Coleman Parkes has found that 43% of global business and IT leaders expect to invest $500,000 to $1 million annually in cloud between now and 2020, but also that despite a significant increase in public/private deployments (doubling by 2020), “
traditional technology will remain integral to the enterprise.”
To support this growing demand, HP also announced further evolution of its cloud platform this month. Specifically, the company introduced Converged Cloud, a consistent, single architecture built on HPs Converged Infrastructure and management software aimed at allowing customers to build and manage hybrid environments - taking advantage of public, managed and private services, while incorporating traditional IT. According to Terence Ngai, director of cloud solutions, HP Global Marketing, customers have been telling HP that they will be building out cloud in mixed deployment models, but also that ''they don’t want disparate tools to manage this cloud. The word that people use is cloud sprawl, where there are pockets of cloud but no way to manage them.'' The goal of Converged Cloud is to provide a broad portfolio of services, but also unified management – or as Ngai put it, “unrestrained access” to different cloud resources.
