HP offers new hybrid cloud service

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has incorporated the new VMware software into its Converged Infrastructure, to offer a hybrid cloud environment to customers.

Through the integration of VMware platform with HP Converged Infrastructure, the technology giant is hoping to deliver improved performance, scalability and reliability to its users.

The comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite aims to provide simplified maintenance and consistent security for dynamic environments.

In addition, integrated turnkey solutions for virtualisation and cloud will allow users turn their VMware virtualisation investments into heterogeneous hybrid clouds.

The company added that the new system will also offer single point of accountability with new HP services that include virtualisation and cloud solution support.

Bethany Mayer, vice president of marketing, enterprise servers, storage and networking at HP said: "Enterprises don't want cloud deployments that require rip-and-replace efforts, but rather want them to evolve from where IT is today to where it is going.

"HP Converged Infrastructure delivers integration with VMware across servers, storage, networking and clients, while also providing turnkey solutions with a common architecture, management and security framework."

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