HP announced that two of its cloud services will exit the beta testing stage and enter general availability (GA) on August 1, 2012. HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) have received a sufficient amount of positive customer feedback and system testing to warrant an end to their public beta phase. HP is also backing its GA services with a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.95% monthly uptime.

HP Cloud Object Storage is a scalable cloud-based data storage and retrieval system where every object the user uploads is stored in three geographically separate availability zones to ensure data protection and integrity. It supports object sizes up to 5GB and “chunking” of objects larger than 5GB.

HP Cloud CDN is a global scalable content delivery network, powered by Akamai, that features a global network of edge servers strategically dispersed around the world. It supports CNAME aliases for URL branding, progressive downloads, HTTP compression, and SSL encryption.

While the aforementioned services exit beta, two others will remain in beta testing. Bot HP Cloud Block Storage and HP Cloud Relational Database for MySQL will remain in private beta for the time being. Customers can sign up for free on the HP Cloud website.

HP’s SLA comes with a guarantee that if the company is not able to deliver 99.95% uptime, it will offer service credit to customers. If the service reaches between 99.94% to 99.9%, customers will receive a 5% credit. For less than 99%, customers will receive a 30% credit, with varying degrees of credit in between 99.95 and 99%.

Up until the public beta, the purpose HP’s Cloud Object Storage remained somewhat of a mystery, but that did not stop a massive influx of HP Cloud customers from signing up just in time. Furthermore, HP’s content delivery network is actually run by a third party, Akamai, but HP likely hopes that its SLA will be attractive enough to lure customers from the competition, which will be no small task. HP is also betting on its “open cloud” approach to give it an edge over competitors.

To sweeten the deal, HP is also offering a $20 per month credit to customers for the first three month when they sign up for one or more of the HP Cloud services. Existing customers can also complete a survey to receive a similar credit.