Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) sought attention in media off late owing to a post by Quentin Hardy of New York Times, that suggested that the esteemed company is looking forward to giving up on the public solution for cloud computing. However a week later, HP executive reverted back arguing against the post that the company has robust vision pertaining to Hybrid IT solutions and they are deemed to continue quite strongly.
Hardy’s Blog Post
There might be some truth in Hardy’s blog post; it cannot be merely hushed away. Further, it cannot be stated that HP executive had previously been misquoted. If that was the case, the executive would have come down heavily on the blog post; why was this one week delay in responding to Hardy’s post, on this premise?
Why This Confusion?
HPQ had made one of the first few marks in the tortured history of cloud computing. The company has, in the past, shown its unerring capability to shoot in its foot with instances of depressing regularity. The latest mis-step, that took HP executive a week’s time to accost the media and show the credibility of HPQ, is in fact one of the many such issues pertaining to depressing regularity. If indeed, the HP team were to make immediate impact, without eye brows shooting up, they should have come up with clarity and thwarted this dishevelled confusion from perpetrating into all the readers of the post.
HPQ’s Investments
Currently, HPQ’s investments on cloud computing are based around Helion – an exquisite OpenStack project on public cloud. It is a managed-private-cloud that is deployed and operated from myriad of HP data centres. The company is offering a range of hybrid delivery models that are managed and hosted publicly or privately.
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) will have a lot at stake if they hope to abandon the public cloud. It would be akin to commercial suicide.
