Our decision to join the OpenStack project was a long-term, strategic move, and we’ve demonstrated our commitment through our participation.
HP is committed to providing strategic direction for the OpenStack platform, and as such has quickly became one of the major contributors to the OpenStack project in terms of funding, resource allocation, testing, community participation, code contributions, training, and commercial deployments.
HP is a Platinum Founding member of the OpenStack Foundation, and as such is committed to providing human and technical resources to support OpenStack technology development. HP:
Is committed to providing its share of funding for the project. This is on top of our voluntary commitment delivering infrastructure, time, power, staff, and code.
Is committed to providing strategic direction for the OpenStack platform. In support of this objective, HP has 2 OpenStack board members: one designated Platinum corporate sponsorship member and one representing individual foundation members chosen from an at-large election.
Provides 5 of the 13 Technical Committee members – no other company has more than two Technical Committee members.
Top Contributor:
9 PTLs (1st overall in representation among contributing organizations)
38 core reviewers (1st overall) spread out across 18 of the official 22 programs for Juno (1st overall)
Since joining the OpenStack Project, HP has typically been among the top five employee contributors, including being the number one contributor for the Havana release and number two for Icehouse. These contributions represent a massive investment in developer time on HP’s part, and we plan to continue that commitment in the future.
HP PTLs lead the following Programs:
Identity (Keystone)
Networking (Neutron)
Database Service (Trove)
Bare metal (Ironic)
Common Libraries (Oslo)
Infrastructure (Infra)
Quality Assurance (QA)
Deployment (TripleO)
DNS Services (Designate)
The source is from https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PTL_Elections_September/October_2014.
Leading hybrid cloud offerings:
HP operates one of the largest public clouds – and the second largest OpenStack public cloud - comprising thousands of compute nodes and multiple petabytes of storage
Dedicated staff:
While developers are a significant part of our staff assigned to work on the OpenStack project, they are by no means the only ones participating in the project. Other employees of HP working on OpenStack matters include operations personnel, documentation teams, training teams, and QA staff.
HP employees act Project Technical leads for some projects and our legal staff participates in the project’s Legal Affairs Committee. HP is the only organization other than the OpenStack Foundation itself that provides a dedicated group of employees to the OpenStack Developer infrastructure and Continuous Integration projects.
We also contribute OpenStack cloud accounts required to keep the OpenStack Developer Infrastructure and Continuous Integration projects running.
This experience, and the needs of our customers for a commercial-grade open source cloud platform, led to the development of our own OpenStack distribution, specifically tailored for large organizations….
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Key goal of slide: HP Helion Rack is ideal for supporting these three related use cases – cloud-native applications from development to provisioning and deployment including demanding performance requirements.
So let’s take a deeper look at how HP Helion Rack has been designed and optimized to meet the needs of each of these use cases:
Develop and deliver cloud-native applications
The integrated HP Helion Development platform provides developers easy, instant access to runtime frameworks and services to accelerate the development cycle. 64 percent of private cloud developers perceive time savings of greater than 20 percent by using a cloud platform for development4.
Application Services and Marketplace in the HP Helion Development Platform helps developers quickly add scale, availability, and database structure into their applications– including the industry’s first high availability, replicated Database-as-a-Service offering based on the OpenStack Trove project and integrated as a Cloud Foundry data service.
New applications and services are portable to deploy across hybrid cloud environments, so you can deploy your application on the peak cloud delivery model without a code rewrite.
Accelerate application testing and development
Developers and admins can immediately provision the infrastructure they need without having to wait.
The HP ProLiant DL360 Server has achieved the number 1 overall performance results on the SPECvirt_sc103 benchmark, so you know you are getting the leading infrastructure for running the maximum number of VM workloads in a dense, virtualized environment at the best performance.
And with nearly 99 percent of cloud developers extending at least some of their cloud applications to mobile clients3, you need to be ready to deliver infrastructure requirements as they quickly move to production, such as high transactional support. HP Helion Rack is production ready with better throughput, featuring 14 percent throughput at DDR4-2133, workload optimized 12Gb SAS controllers, and switches that enable faster application response time.
Broker internal private cloud services for demanding workloads , and those with security and compliance requirements
With HP Helion Rack architected as a private cloud in your data center, you remain in control of security and compliance policies about how your sensitive data is protected and regulations are met.
HP Helion Rack’s ProLiant Gen9 Platform provides up to 40 percent better system performance with dual Haswell v3 processors6 and HP DDR4 SmartMemory , supporting your compute intensive workloads like Big Data analytics. With 33 percent of enterprise customers targeting Big Data analytics for deployment on converged systems in the next 12 months, and 84 percent of enterprise customers targeting business intelligence [analytics] workloads for private cloud environments in 20152, you’ll be ready to give Big Data analytics apps what they need to get insights now.
HP Helion Rack also has the flexibility to support high-performance database workload needs with switches that provide ultra-low latency (under 1.5us 10 GbE), improved throughput, and fewer lost packets, as well as a high availability architecture for HP Helion OpenStack and the Swift object storage, and VSA block storage. You’ll be ahead of the curve and ready to support this growing workload need. 39 percent of enterprise customers are targeting database workloads for deployment on converged systems in the next 12 months5, and it can be a key element in some cloud-native applications.
1 (TBR Converged Infrastructure Global Landscape, July 2014)
2 (TBR, Private Cloud Customer Research 2H14)
3 (Data Corporation, Cloud Development Survey, Volume 1, 2014, page 123)
4 (Evans Data Corporation, Cloud Development Survey, Volume 1, 2014, page 201)
5 (TBR Converged Infrastructure Global Landscape, July 2014).
6 Compared to HP ProLiant DL 360 Gen8 systems with Intel Ivy Bridge processors and DDR3 memory.
Helion CloudSystem provides a common management platform across multiple environments that is very easy to use. This provides end-to-end efficiencies for users that result in much higher productivity and greater business agility.
Integral to this capability is HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA). It is a component of Helion CloudSystem Enterprise that provides open, heterogeneous, and extensible enterprise-grade cloud service lifecycle management to design and orchestrate sophisticated cloud services. CSA embraces existing automation assets with an enhanced orchestration engine, which provides IT with an informed, transparent delivery of secure compliant services for the hybrid cloud.
Support for multiple hypervisor, storage, compute, networking, and public cloud vendors means you are in control: deliver the services you need, in the manner you need them. If you choose to utilize hybrid service delivery, you can run on-premises services in your private cloud while simultaneously managing off-premises services or bursting to external public cloud providers.