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HP To Shut Down Its OpenStack Based Public Cloud (fortune.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the jettison-the-chaff dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Hewlett-Packard, which has been backing off on ambitious public cloud plans for a year, is now calling it quits, sunsetting HP Helion Public cloud in January 2016. in a buzzword-laden blog post, the company says its building out support for interoperability with Amazon and Microsoft public cloud offerings to provide options for customers who require such functionality. "HP’s decision is the latest milestone in what has been a slow fade for the company’s public cloud ambitions. It has become increasingly clear that there are three, maybe four companies that can support (at scale) the massive shared computing, networking, and storage infrastructure necessary for a public cloud. ... HP will continue pushing its private and hybrid cloud."

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  1. They used HP hardware to build their cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    They used HP hardware to build their own cloud because it was cheaper.

    Then they found out they needed to buy separate ILOM cards so they could manage their hardware. So much for cheaper.

    They spent hundreds of man-hours installing the ILOM cards.

    Then they found out they needed to by licenses for the ILOM software. Oh crap, now it's more expensive.

    Then the servers went operational and they found out their brand-fucking-new HP servers are actually SLOWER than the years-old Sun Microsystems-built x86 servers they're supposed to replace - because HP used cheap parts like motherboards with no memory bandwidth and complete piece-of-shit commodity disk controllers that shit the bed when trying to move more than 50MB/sec. Oh yeah, the NEW HP servers only have two gigE ports - whereas the OLD Sun servers had FOUR. And if they had used new Oracle-built servers from the old Sun production line, they would have gotten four 10GB network ports on FASTER servers - and had remote management hardware with fully licensed software for LESS money. (And Oracle ain't exactly cheap, so when the final solution from HP is shittier and more expensive than the one from Oracle...)

    Then the damn HP hardware started failing right and left. And the cheap-ass fiber-channel HBAs don't work with a damn.

    Can you tell I've dealt with HP before?

    So it's not surprising the HP can't deal with HP either.