Hewlett-Packard prepares rival Amazon Web Services

Recently, HP representatives said that within two months, Hewlett-Packard will launch a cloud service that can be considered an active competitor to Amazon Web Services. According to the developers, this service will be more business-oriented than its counterpart from Amazon. The new service will be not just a cloud infrastructure, it will be a reliable platform with a large number of services developed by independent companies. At the very beginning, web applications based on the new platform will be launched, designed for working with databases, collecting and analyzing statistical data.

Unfortunately, detailed information about the possible cost of a new servant was not provided. We only know that HP is going to make its own prices lower than those of competitors. In this case, the cloud platform from Hewlett-Packard will be more personalized, so to speak. HP will introduce extensive features and a large number of tools for developers who work with Ruby, Java, and PHP. The service will open an online application store where you can offer or rent software based on the company's cloud platform. According to HP management, there will be ongoing monitoring of the quality of software offered by third-party developers.
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The current management of the company considers this project one of the most ambitious in the history of HP. Work on the creation of the service has been going on for a long time, but only now followed the official comment from HP. While the service will operate on the basis of HP data centers located on the East and West Coast of the United States. But management also announced its intention to create a network of small data centers around the world to ensure the stable operation of its new product. All hardware will be predominantly from HP.

An interesting point is also the fact that the management does not hope for a particularly large income from this project. Its effectiveness will be judged based on how much the HP cloud platform will be useful for other sectors of the company's business, and how it will help increase the company's total revenue.

Via nytimes.com