HP announces updates to HP Helion portfolio

Hewlett Packard announced updates to the  HP Helion portfolio that will help enterprises realize the benefits of transitioning to a hybrid infrastructure. HP introduced HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 the next release of its flagship integrated enterprise cloud solution, and enhancements to HP Helion managed cloud services  to manage enterprise workloads in a secure hosted cloud environment.

Enterprises today spend the majority of IT budgets by some estimates as high as 90 percent on maintaining existing systems. HP estimates enterprises can reduce IT maintenance costs by approximately 40 percent by migrating existing systems to a cloud-based architecture. This can free-up the capital enterprise IT departments need to modernize application development and pursue new revenue generating opportunities.

“Enterprise customers have a range of needs in moving to the cloud—some need to cloud-enable traditional workloads, while others seek to build next generation ‘cloud native’ apps using modern technologies like OpenStack®, Cloud Foundry® and Docker,” said Narayanan Chellappan, country director, cloud division, HP India. “The expanded support for multiple hypervisors and cloud environments in HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 gives enterprises and service providers added flexibility to gain cloud benefits for their existing and new applications.”

HP Helion CloudSystem is an integrated, end-to-end, private cloud solution, built to help customers realize the benefits of a hybrid infrastructure designed for traditional and cloud native workloads, enabling automation, orchestration and control across multiple heterogeneous clouds, workloads and technologies.

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 expands support for multiple hypervisors and multiple clouds to