Scott Weller, HP, at HP Discover Barcelona 2013 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
Scott Weller, VP & GM, HP Technology Services, Support, discussed the trends of cloud adoption in the enterprise with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at this year HP Discover event in Barcelona.
Commenting on the vibe of the European event, Weller said "this event gets better and better every time. The customers that show up at these events tend to be more senior, more in the C-level ranks." He added, "this year we've got so many announcements, it's really hard to count them," the star being HP flexible capacity service which "will be a real game changer in the market."
The mainstream cloud
Asked to comment on the idea that the cloud is now mainstream and part of full deployment architectures, Weller said we were well past the idea that "cloud is interesting, but not for me." Customers are now focusing on determining how to get the right balance of workloads inside and outside of the firewall and how to make it a mainstream part of their operations. Thus there is a focus on the technology and services helping them solve the problem.
Commenting on the statement that 10 percent of customers say they are pursuing a public cloud strategy, Weller said "I think it's almost self-evident. It's easy enough if you've got no presence in the data center to talk about how everything is public cloud. Every real business with real workloads" has to have a well thought, planned strategy to get workloads outside the firewall, he explains. "Clearly hybrid is there, this is not a symptom of the business we are in, it's the reality of our customers."
"Customers really want a lot of elasticity and they want the economics the public cloud can offer, but they also want to keep their IT on premise," Weller said. A lot of customers have their own practices and policies that make the move to the cloud very difficult. HP's Flexible Capacity service solves that issue.
Flexible Capacity offers public cloud services using a hybrid, flexible pricing model. It works by installing the assets and taking the risk away. Customers don't want lock in, or complexity, and to risk to much, "we take that into equation."
Asked to define 'enterprise grade,' Weller said it was an "elusive term for users. Enterprise grade really boils down to 'do I have any consistency and certainty into the equation.'" It also requires architecture resilience, customers need the confidence that there won't be an outage, and if there is one, they need to know what is going to happen in what time frame.
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Scott Weller, HP, at HP Discover Barcelona 2013 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
Scott Weller, VP & GM, HP Technology Services, Support, discussed the trends of cloud adoption in the enterprise with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at this year HP Discover event in Barcelona.
Commenting on the vibe of the European event, Weller said "this event gets better and better every time. The customers that show up at these events tend to be more senior, more in the C-level ranks." He added, "this year we've got so many announcements, it's really hard to count them," the star being HP flexible capacity service which "will be a real game changer in the market."
The mainstream cloud
Asked to comment on the idea that the cloud is now mainstream and part of full deployment architectures, Weller said we were well past the idea that "cloud is interesting, but not for me." Customers are now focusing on determining how to get the right balance of workloads inside and outside of the firewall and how to make it a mainstream part of their operations. Thus there is a focus on the technology and services helping them solve the problem.
Commenting on the statement that 10 percent of customers say they are pursuing a public cloud strategy, Weller said "I think it's almost self-evident. It's easy enough if you've got no presence in the data center to talk about how everything is public cloud. Every real business with real workloads" has to have a well thought, planned strategy to get workloads outside the firewall, he explains. "Clearly hybrid is there, this is not a symptom of the business we are in, it's the reality of our customers."
"Customers really want a lot of elasticity and they want the economics the public cloud can offer, but they also want to keep their IT on premise," Weller said. A lot of customers have their own practices and policies that make the move to the cloud very difficult. HP's Flexible Capacity service solves that issue.
Flexible Capacity offers public cloud services using a hybrid, flexible pricing model. It works by installing the assets and taking the risk away. Customers don't want lock in, or complexity, and to risk to much, "we take that into equation."
Asked to define 'enterprise grade,' Weller said it was an "elusive term for users. Enterprise grade really boils down to 'do I have any consistency and certainty into the equation.'" It also requires architecture resilience, customers need the confidence that there won't be an outage, and if there is one, they need to know what is going to happen in what time frame.
@thecube
#hpdiscover
