HP has unveiled three new offerings, which it claims to enable businesses and telecommunication service providers to benefit from cloud computing while optimising costs and mitigating the risk of adoption.
The company claims that the new offering helps users to respond to changing business needs with automated provisioning of cloud and physical services; predict costs by ensuring cloud compute resources are right sized to support fluctuating business demand; and reduce manual errors, non-compliance and business downtime.
HP said, the new offering helps businesses govern and manage cloud services using Operations Orchestration and Cloud Assure for cost control, and enable providers to offer cloud services with Communications as a Service (CaaS).
According to HP, Operations Orchestration automates the provisioning of services within the existing infrastructure, whether physical, virtual or cloud based. It allows businesses to increase capacity through integration with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Cloud Assure for cost control enables cloud consumers to right size their various compute footprints.
The company said that the Communications as a Service enables service providers to offer small- and midsize businesses services on an outsourced basis. It includes an aggregation platform, four integrated communications services from HP and third parties as well as the flexibility to add other on-demand services.
Thomas Hogan, executive vice president of software and solutions at HP, said: “CIOs understand the potential business benefits of cloud computing but are challenged with how best to manage the risks associated with adoption. The new HP offerings help assess and mitigate those concerns, driving greater business value by breaking down the adoption barriers related to cost and performance.”
