April 2009 14

HP Cloud Assure

MarketWatch

PALO ALTO, Calif., Mar 31, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HP today announced HP Cloud Assure, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering designed to help businesses safely and effectively adopt cloud-based services.

HP also introduced updates to its HP SaaS reseller program that allow partners to provide added services and value to customers.

Cloud computing is a term used to describe services that can be delivered and used over the Internet through an “as-needed, pay-per-use” business model.

The promise of cloud computing is appealing because it can reduce business costs and provide greater flexibility and scalability of services throughout the enterprise. However, IT organizations unable to ensure the security, performance and availability of the cloud services they provide or consume may be putting their businesses at risk. This uncertainty can be an impediment to wider adoption of cloud services by enterprises.

An article about HP’s offering in the Cloud Computing space, it’s always good to see what new services are being brought online by the different vendors. Anything the vendors can do to make the provisioning and procurement of services has to be a good thing. I’m off to read up more.




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  1. Supporting documentation can make the difference between a bit of kit that’s ok or one that’s exceptional at the job it was designed for. How do you know you’re using something properly if you don’t know it’s capabilities for instance. I’m not sure why Blade Watch » HP Cloud Assure appeared when I was searching specifically for technical documentation services but I read it anyway and will think a bit more about it. There are some interesting points.

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