Hewlett-Packard will shut down Helion Public Cloud, its five-year old cloud-computing service that competed with Amazon.com's AWS, on 31 January 2016.
In order to respond to customers' demand to receive the ability to bring together multiple cloud environments under a flexible and enterprise-grade hybrid cloud model, the company said it will move to a strategic, multiple partner-based model for public cloud capabilities, as a component of how it delivers hybrid cloud products to enterprise customers, Bill Hilf, SVP and GM, HP Cloud said in a company announcement.
To support this new model, the company will continue to aggressively grow its partner ecosystem and integrate different public cloud environments. To enable this flexibility, it is helping customers build cloud-portable applications based on HP Helion OpenStack and the HP Helion Development Platform. In Europe, the company said it is leading the Cloud28+ initiative that is bringing together commercial and public sector IT vendors and EU regulators to develop common cloud service offerings across 28 different countries.
