HP products enable hybrid cloud computing

From InfoWorld: HP Wednesday announced products it says will help enterprise IT and service providers ease the adoption of internal cloud computing setups as well as public cloud services.

HP, at its Software Universe 2009 show in Hamburg, Germany, is expected to introduce an updated version of its Operations Orchestration software, which can now extend the product's automated provisioning and de-provisioning capabilities into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The software, sold as a license and deployed on customer premises, enables IT administrators to automate the process of provisioning virtual resources. HP executives say the added features will let companies using both internal and external clouds standardize on provisioning and de-provisioning workflows.

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"We already have customers using internal private clouds and taking advantage of the automation capabilities," says Paul Muller, vice president of software products strategic marketing for HP Software & Solutions. "Now they can also seamlessly provision into the cloud."

With such a capability, Operations Orchestration could help enterprises with mixed environments allocate resources in a consistent manner, industry watchers say.

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