UPDATED 07:50 EDT / OCTOBER 27 2014

theCUBE Live At HP Discover 2014 NEWS

HP launches community edition of Helion OpenStack

theCUBE Live At HP Discover 2014

theCUBE Live At HP Discover 2014

Hewlett-Packard Co. has made good on an earlier promise to build and offer its own OpenStack distribution with the general release of its Helion OpenStack software.

HP’s Helion is based on the new Juno OpenStack release, and is offered alongside the new Helion Development Platform that combines OpenStack integrated with Cloud Foundry PaaS capabilities. HP says the community edition of Helion is available now, and is suitable for pilot and proof-of-concept deployments. Bill Hilf, HP’s SVP of Cloud Products and Services, says the plan is to follow OpenStack’s own release schedule for future releases of Helion.

As for the commercial version of Helion, this will be available in “a few months”, though HP didn’t say exactly when. It’ll add a few new capabilities, including “integration with enterprise applications and tools, and cross-platform support for third-party hypervisors, databases and software solutions,” said Hilf.

The commercial version will also come with security and management enhancements, plus a new OpenStack indemnification program designed to offer protections against copyright, patent and trade secret lawsuits. HP says it will release more details about this at the next HP Discovery Conference in June 2015, a statement that could indicate we’ll have to wait a little longer for the commercial release than the “few months” Hilf has promised.

As for the Helion Development Platform, this has been released as a trial version and is available on the Helion Public Cloud. This lets developers test out Helion OpenStack, create cloud apps and run deployments across different clouds, without needing to create their own Helion environment. The platform comes with various application services, including CloudFoundry’s application lifecycle service, the MySQL database, a marketplace and messaging.

The release is the latest push from HP as it attempts to take on the big boys in the cloud. But while HP is now claiming to have a public cloud capability, rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Inc., and Microsoft Corp., have since pushed into hybrid cloud territory – in other words, they’re still streets ahead of HP.

HP Helion OpenStack is priced at $2,200 per server, while the development platform costs $890 per server. Helion OpenStack can be dowloaded here, while the development platform is available here.


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