HP joins Cloud battlefield to get a slice of the pie

HP has elevated the position of Michael Clifford, the enterprise's key server business director, with greater activity rights in order to develop HP's cloud http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17487.html "> Services business."

The current market situation is that the major companies are gradually moving it business out of the local, so the "cloud" became popular.

"We are vigorously developing cloud services, not everyone is using it, but everybody is talking about it, and what we want to do is to be a leader in cloud services," said Nick Wilson, head of HP's UK and Ireland region. He added, "There is a cloud in the center of the business, and then according to it to allocate the cloud of various virtual or proprietary resources." He (Clifford) 's job is to combine these parts organically. ”

He also claims that if HP merges its cloud services, it would be the biggest "cloud" on Earth, perhaps only Amazon could compete with.

In the second half of last year, HP released the Cloud Agile Services Programme (Flexible cloud service planning), and for cloud service providers, they could sell cloud systems based on the corporate infrastructure architecture and HP Expertone certification.

Then, in March, HP introduced HP Cloudsystem Partner programme (HP Cloud System Partner Program) to suppliers to enhance the technology and sales capacity of channel partners in order to develop private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud business.

The message from the reseller is that HP does not seem to be looking for a way to resell the HP cloud, but the vendor has again improved the compensation model for the internal sales group. Sellers say: "When users purchase a cloud service based on HP technology, HP salespeople can compensate users in some way." ”

This is as important as sales compensation to reflect the changing business activities. HP should reflect on the sales model, or reseller may refuse to move to the cloud, but instead continue to promote the previous local infrastructure facilities.

There are many different views on the size of the cloud, and this week Gartner refuted a report by IDC, pointing out that the public cloud has reached $100 billion trillion, not what IDC says is 40 billion dollars.

HP estimates that its global cloud business could reach £ 143 billion by 2013.

"The cloud is growing, but if you look at a country's income statement and GDP (gross domestic product), you don't see any change," Wilson said. ”

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