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By SiliconIndia| Thursday, 11 October 2012, 18:15 IST | 1 Comments

Bangalore: For years, Hewlett Packard was best known for its servers in the enterprise. But for now it seems the thought of cloud computing is taking over, as HP is the latest to join the cloud community, as enterprises are already satisfied with HPs cloud service.

HP cloud offers a long list of Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS, which certainly is a big-blow to major players like Amazon and Google.

HPs cloud is primarily built on OpenStack technology, which makes the service quite flexible when compared to other clouds. Another advantage is the price list. HP offers 1GB of RAM for 4 cents per hour which better when compared to Rackspaces 6 cents per hour for a 1GB machine.

But still with all these advantages, enterprises are a bit disappointed on the unavailability of operating systems such as Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Server. Marc Padovani, HP Cloud Services director of product management, has hinted that the Windows Server operating system will arrive sooner, rather than later.

HPs Persistent Storage:

From the traditional idea of having a separate storage of each web service, HP has introduced its version called HP Cloud Object Storage. Inspired from Amazon S3, the cloud object storage provides APIs for storing and retrieving files.

Another stand out quality is its web interface. Files can be uploaded directly as the browser handles the rest of computing process. Also there are network monitoring tools incorporated within the browser so that users can predetermine the ports to be opened on their respective machines. This saves the logging time into each machine to run a script.

The storage price is another big advantage in HPs cloud. While the uploading bandwidth comes free, the outgoing data has a price. After the first few free gigabytes, the cost per data downloaded is 12 cents.

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HP Adds Another Feather to its Cap: HP Cloud