HP executives disclose details of cloud computing plans on social networking sites

In the morning of May 4, Beijing time, a senior Hewlett-Packard executive leaked details about the company's cloud computing plan when he updated the LinkedIn data. Hewlett-Packard CEO Lee Ai (Leo Apotheker) announced last month that the company will vigorously expand the cloud computing market, but did not disclose much detail, but said that the development of "Platform as a service" and "infrastructure as a service" products.　　The former is similar to Microsoft's Windows Azure, which is comparable to Amazon's Web services. In Tuesday, McClellan, vice president of HP Cloud services, updated his LinkedIn profile to reveal many details of HP's cloud computing strategy.　　Although he subsequently deleted the information, he was still recorded in time by the media. Here's what HP is developing--developing the object storage service from scratch.　　This sounds like a simple data storage service, and Amazon's Web services and Microsoft Windows Azure have integrated this functionality. -HP "Computing", "Network" and "Block storage" services. It appears to resemble Amazon's Web services, but McClellan claims the service will be differentiated from existing products. "Users need to provide a clear explanation and the system can be deployed and managed automatically," he said.　　-Share services for authentication, authorization, billing, metering, and analytics.　　-Support Java, Ruby, and other open source languages. But HP did not mention Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud computing services. NET development platform and the C # language programming language.　　HP, Dell and Fujitsu have agreed to develop azure apps, allowing large companies to run localized products on Microsoft's Azure platform. But the plan was made by Mark Hurd, a former HP CEO, who declined to say whether HP would stick to the plan when it announced a new strategy last month, Hurd said. (PEI)