I had a presentation last week at HP Partner Summit at Stocholm about Cloud Computing Infrastructure and HP’s Trilogy offer. Well, trilogy in a basic is the infrastructure to build your private clouds on it. We beieve that after more than a decade of physical server sprawl, massive growth in storage requirements and the emergence of hierarchical network architectures, IT complexity has reached an all-time high. Today, IT organizations are forced to act as their own systems integrators whereelse we think “there are not any IT project in the world; there are only business projects which need a lot of IT support”. Thats why we believe in business-ready infrastructures, which are converged and virtualized.
With the sprawl in IT systems, many customers find themselves with a complex and inflexible set of infrastructure that limits their ability to respond to changes in the business. For many, the goal of offering “IT as a service” remains elusive, and their legacy infrastructure is an increasingly larger part of their IT maintenance budget that constrains the ability of IT departments to launch new projects and innovate. Trilogy is, at this point, a great option to consider. Just have a look at to my presentation below and feel free to comment.
It’s a great presentation. But I just want to know whether internal clouds give the flexibility according to business requirements. Your presentation didn’t talk much about it.
Hi Cathy,
For me the private clouds are equally flexible with public clouds, if not even more flexible. Since you own the datacenter internally within your firewalls, it makes it even more flexible for users since they own and manage Infrastructure/Platform/Software. So, my way of thinking cloud computing is mostly private clouds, which might be combined with some public cloud offerings, where customers own and manage it.