HP adds Eucalyptus to its acquisition portfolio
Key takeaways from Hewlett-Packard’s 4Q14 earnings (Part 2 of 11)
HP acquires Eucalyptus
In September 2014, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced the acquisition of Eucalyptus, a provider of open source software for building private and hybrid enterprise clouds. Eucalyptus open source software is compatible with Amazon (AMZN) web services.
HP expects Eucalyptus software to broaden HP Helion’s expanse
Eucalyptus started as an open source project. Faculty and students of the University of California at Santa Barbara started the project to duplicate the function of Amazon’s Application Process Interface (or API). Later on, Amazon formed a partnership with Eucalyptus to assure its customers that the two APIs were not conflicting and would remain in sync.
Through the Eucalyptus acquisition, HP intends for its public Helion cloud services to work with private clouds that are built on Amazon’s APIs. The graphic above shows the Eucalyptus architecture overview where users can move between a Eucalyptus private cloud and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to create a hybrid cloud.
Acquisition is in line with the company’s efforts to expand in open stack and cloud space
In May 2014, HP announced its plans to invest more than $1 billion in the next two years to develop cloud-computing software and tools. HP Helion Openstack, a portfolio of cloud offerings that would enable organizations to manage workload in a hybrid IT environment, was announced as a part of this cloud initiative. OpenStack, which is backed by HP, IBM (IBM), Cisco (CSCO), Intel (INTC), and NetApp, is an open source software framework. The acquisition is in line with the company’s efforts to expand into the cloud computing space.
To find out more detail about HP Helion, please read Must-know: HP Helion launched to tap the cloud space.
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