HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:02AM from the like-amazon-apis-but-open-source dept.

krow writes "HP Cloud is offering free access to Open Stack via its public cloud. Adoption of the Open Stack APIs is growing, and we [note: 'krow' is also known as Brian Aker, once Slashdot's 'database thug,' later the creator of the Drizzle database, and now an HP Fellow] are offering up access to push tool integration and adoption around the APIs. Most recently we have been able to add support for on-demand Jenkins orchestration via the JCloud's plugin. API as well as console access is being made to the computer, object storage, and CDN interfaces. There are images being provided for different Linux distributions, and additionally images for Bitnami, ActiveState's Stackato, and Enterprise DB's Postgres images."

2 of 30 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Kinda free by houstonbofh · 2012-07-26 08:10 · Score: 4, Insightful

Amazon has a free account forever, until you out grow it. This one is "up to" three months, or until you outgrow it. In most cases, the proof of concept takes longer than three months to prove and fund. That means with Amazon you can try something without having to get major approvals, and just show a working prototype. With HP, it is a gamble.
If its like the rest of their software... by who_stole_my_kidneys · 2012-07-26 08:26 · Score: 3, Insightful

It wont be worth wiping your ass with. Historically HP's software has been dog shit and continues to be. I don't need more headache's from HP so ill pass on this one.