HP on Monday rolled out a series of services and systems designed aimed at enterprises looking to revamp data centers for cloud computing.
The effort highlights how large enterprise technology vendors are talking cloud. Many of these vendors, however, are pushing the hardware, or the arms dealer, part of the equation. IBM last week launched its platform-as-a-service model. Other cloud efforts to date revolve around selling hardware.
Ian Jagger, worldwide technology consulting manager for HP Technology Services, said that "all clouds reside somewhere in the data center." Jagger also referred to the data center as the "cloud in the ground."
Oracle has made similar arguments as it tries to sell more Exadata integrated machines.
HP's main pitch is that its bundles can revamp data centers with shorter planning and implementation periods. HP is also taking its best practices by allowing planning, design and build processes to run at the same time.
Frances Guida, manager of HP's cloud solutions and infrastructure unit, said that customers will increasingly design their data centers to deliver cloud computing internally or externally as a service.
HP executives said that the latest bundle of CloudSystem components are separate from the company's cloud services currently in private beta. It's unclear whether these dots will be connected.
Among components:
Recent cloud moves among the tech behemoths: