HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack

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."

Comments

Kinda free

[houstonbofh]

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.

Re:Kinda free

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is this mythical free Amazon EC2 account? I had one for one year, then they started billing. Throttling on the free service is fine if you're designing for a 50Mhz server.

If its like the rest of their software...

[who_stole_my_kidneys]

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.

Re:If its like the rest of their software...

[Anonymous Coward]

OpenStack isn't HP software.....

Re:Kinda free (correction)

[jspoon]

Most of the services on Amazon's free tier expire after 12 months. That's still pretty generous though. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Unusually overt slashvertisement

[DragonWriter]

Usually, slashvertisements attempt to sneak by as industry news, cloaked in a veil of third-party language and trying to pretend to be mostly about new developments in the industry and less about "sign up for our service now".

I suppose there's a sense in which this more overt slashvertisement is an improvement (in that it doesn't pretend to be something its not). I just hope Slashdot is getting paid more for this than it would be for a regular ad (since there's no option for established users to hide this kind of ad, unlike the more normal kind.)

Re:Unusually overt slashvertisement

[ajo_arctus]

I hope that Slashdot aren't getting paid for that, because if it truly is an advert, it's one of the crummiest adverts I've ever seen.

I mean, I'm pretty up on 'cloud' stuff. I use EC2 extensively. I'm up on Java, I write quite a bit of that stuff. I recognise many of the buzzwords in the post but I don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about or what exactly HP are offering. And I don't care enough about this gap in my knowledge to click any of the links and find out, because I suspect it'll be a waste of time.

Appfog is doing the same, but it's not a trial.

[JeremyMorgan]

Appfog is also offering free accounts, with 2 gig of RAM to use as long as you want. This seems like a great way to build your app and get it started, then once you grow you can fund the required expansion. Very startup friendly.

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Re:Kinda free (correction)

[gbjbaanb]

And then there's RedHat's OpenShift that appears to be free forever as long as you don't need much power. I guess that might change if it gets real popular, but then real popular should mean they have a lot of paying customers to subsidise the freebie option.

Re:Beware of free milk from IaaS / SaaS providers

[Gizzmonic]

OpenStack is offered by a variety of vendors...it's the Linux to AWS' Windows.

Windows shop

[gestalt_n_pepper]

So, no bandwidth available for such. Pity.

The HP Stack

[rossdee]

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