The Cloud. The Cloud!!!
This ‘cloud’ thing is dangerous.
It is dangerous because it is a very subliminal, almost stealthy paradigm shift, that is evolving computing as we currently know it is ways that are so great, yet, largely invisible.
I will almost hazard a conjecture – hard hats, please! 
A couple of weeks ago, I was at Intel Cloud Day in San Francisco, where Intel, who’s CPUs are technically the engines powering the cloud, delivered their latest offerings in that quest.
This time, it is HP, talking about what they are offering to firms looking to make the transition.
Private, Public, or Hybrid?
The smartest firms always offer choice, correctly noting that each firm’s situation is somehow, unique.
ISVs, OEMs, and vendors destined for fails never realize that, exposing their customers and users to untold pain, and financial suffering.
I am glad to see that HP recognizes this.
There are three kinds of cloud that are in general, corporate use: public, private, or hybrid.
Following the hyperlinks will lead to brief descriptions.
HPE products are used in all of them, befitting HPE’s position as the largest server vendor on with side of the Alpha or Beta Quadrants.
Unlike my trepidations with Intel, for HPE I had none. In my dealing with them over the past decade plus, HPE’s Enterprise products team has constantly and continually delivered upgrades and updates to their Proliant offerings, enough to please even the most jaundiced of sysadmins, talk less of higher-ups who only tend to be enamored with figures.
I was not disappointed.
HPE Proliants are ready: The afore-mentioned HPE Proliants are ready for cloud computing, be it private, public, or hybrid.
HPE OneView is Ready: OneView is HPE’s orchestration and management software solution.
It is has been readied for the cloud, and works with most 3rd-party management schemes, especially our favorite, Microsoft Systems Center.
HPE is committed to Windows Server: Though I hear a lot about Linux, Windows Server is one of the MFNs (most-favored nations, or server OSs) for both HP Proliant, and HP’s cloud efforts.
HPE is committed to OpenStack: They are. If you are interested in, or vested in OpenStack, contact HPE; they will tell you more. I am not so…
HPE is virtualization-hypervisor-agnostic: HPE’s cloud efforts, I am informed, work very well with Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM. This is very good, as it allows you to choose your poison, then bring it to the dance.
In Part II, I will report on HP’s HyperConverged status, and follow that with Part III, which will be about HPE’s Composable architecture.
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