HP Introduces HP Helion Alliance: A Secure, Hybrid IT Environment

Today, HP officially announced the launch of the Helion Alliance, an alliance that is a global, open coalition that aims to provide customers with the best service portfolio to enable it to create a secure, hybrid IT environment that meets both local and global The demand.

Building on HP's leadership in OpenStack® distributed cloud computing, the HP Helion Alliance will provide service providers with unique business and operational models. It will attract partners with a strong ecosystem of independent software vendors, developers, systems integrators and value-added resellers to accelerate innovation and deliver hybrid cloud services based on open standards.

Service providers in the Helion Alliance will provide the foundation for a service ecosystem. At the same time, the HP Helion Alliance is built on HP CloudAgile service providers covering more than 115 service providers and 1,500 private cloud deployments around the world, working together with companies such as AT & T, HKT, Intel and Synapsis to advance the alliance.

Zhang Yongjian, HP's global vice president and general manager of Cloud Computing Group in China, said: "The global enterprises are facing the challenges of security, data sovereignty, interoperability and service quality brought by many cloud-based products and services across many areas. Hewlett-Packard's expertise in running large-scale OpenStack technology and its ability to federate service providers and technology partners together will enable us to create a unified ecosystem that will allow organizations to deploy services at the right cost at the right time The right platform. "

Cross-hardware HP Helion Alliance will provide enterprise customers with:

• Open, secure and flexible hybrid IT environment: Avoiding vendor lock-in for workload migration between local and remote environments.

• A broader range of enterprise-class cloud services: Enforcing networked services including horizontal and vertical applications and secure cloud networking, enabling customers to meet local and multinational mix needs.

• Meet country-specific data-related laws and regulations: including data sovereignty, retention and protection.

Andrew Geisse, CEO, AT & T Business Solutions, AT & T, USA, said: "Our corporate customers are looking to secure cloud solutions for applications that require high levels of information protection, benefiting from economies of scale, speed and control. HP Helion integrates with our patented NetBond technology and hopes to find ways to further expand these capabilities with the Helion Alliance ecosystem. "

HP partner new opportunities

HP Helion Alliance will better position service providers, HP channel partners and developers to meet the changing needs of enterprise customers with new IT models while gaining a higher share of the rapidly growing cloud market.

Partner will receive:

• Drive new revenue and reduce costs: Leverage the technology and expertise of HP and its partners to deliver differentiated cloud offerings.

• Extensible Cloud Services Portfolio: Service providers are able to sell vertical and horizontal cloud solutions to other Helion Alliance service providers.

• Collaborative Sales and Marketing Strengthens Market Coverage and Increases Time to Market: Includes HP training, assurance, and market support through indirect channel partners such as Hewlett-Packard's direct channel partners, value-added resellers, and distributors.

• Flexible payment structure: Optimize IT return on investment.

Expand HP Helion portfolio

The Helion Alliance is part of the HP Helion family of products and services released in May. New products in this portfolio include:

• HP Helion OpenStack - a commercial preview designed to meet the needs of businesses and service providers worldwide. It provides a scale-out, proven, and professional OpenStack technology at a business-class deployment, simplifying installation, providing resilience and improving manageability.

• HP Helion Development Platform - a community preview of CloudFoundry ™ -based integrated cloud application platform that is fully integrated and tested with HP Helion OpenStack. It enables enterprise developers to rapidly develop, deploy and scale local cloud applications with leading-edge development tools and an open interoperability platform.

Jonathan Donaldson, general manager of Intel's software-defined infrastructure group, said: "At the moment IT is moving to a cloud infrastructure that is imminent and Intel is committed to working with the industry to accelerate the adoption of cloud solutions." Intel is pleased to partner with Hewlett-Packard at HP Helion OpenStack, Help businesses prepare for the cloud by enhancing features like availability, security and ease of deployment. "

Sales

HP Helion Alliance expects to launch pilot plans in the fourth quarter of 2014. Hewlett-Packard Helion OpenStack and HP Helion development platform plans to be listed over the same period.