A senior HP exec accidentally revealed company's cloud computing initiative details while updating his LinkedIn profile. Scott McClellan, VP of cloud services updated his LinkedIn profile with reportedly details on exactly what HP is building.
The details were published by The Register before McClellan pulled it back. Here is excerpt from McClellan's LinkedInn profile as published by The Register.
*HP "object storage service": built from scratch, distributed system, designed to solve for cost, scale, and reliability without compromise.
*HP "compute", "networking" and "block storage" service: an innovative and highly differentiated approach to cloud computing -- a declarative/model-based approach where users often provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management.
*Common/shared service: User management, key management, identity management & federation, authorization, authentication (inclu, multi-factor) and auditing (AAA), billing/metering, alerting/logging, analytics.
*Website and User/Developer Experience.Future HP "cloud" website including public content and authenticated user content. APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby and other open source languages. Fully-functional GUI and CLI (both Unix and Windows).
*Quality assuarance, code/design inspection processes, security and penetration testing.
Earlier, in March the HP CEO Leo Apotheker, outlining his vision for the company, revealed plan to expand into cloud computing market where services are hosted remotely in data conters.
He said that HP will launch a "cloud marketplace" and an array of offerings for consumers, businesses and application developers, pitting the company against the likes of Amazon.com. However, Apotheker did nto go more into details.
*HP "object storage service": built from scratch, distributed system, designed to solve for cost, scale, and reliability without compromise.
*HP "compute", "networking" and "block storage" service: an innovative and highly differentiated approach to cloud computing -- a declarative/model-based approach where users often provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management.
*Common/shared service: User management, key management, identity management & federation, authorization, authentication (inclu, multi-factor) and auditing (AAA), billing/metering, alerting/logging, analytics.
*Website and User/Developer Experience.Future HP "cloud" website including public content and authenticated user content. APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby and other open source languages. Fully-functional GUI and CLI (both Unix and Windows).
*Quality assuarance, code/design inspection processes, security and penetration testing.
Earlier, in March the HP CEO Leo Apotheker, outlining his vision for the company, revealed plan to expand into cloud computing market where services are hosted remotely in data conters.
He said that HP will launch a "cloud marketplace" and an array of offerings for consumers, businesses and application developers, pitting the company against the likes of Amazon.com. However, Apotheker did nto go more into details.
