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Renai LeMay
Wednesday, 08 December 2010 12:30
The company's chief of its Enterprise Services division (formerly EDS), David Caspari (pictured) will next week make a rare appearance before journalists in a briefing on the company's plans to launch what it calls 'HP Utility Services' in Australia. Caspari will be flanked by David Fox, the head of Utility Services for the division's South Pacific region, which includes Australia.
Utility Services is a label that HP has started applying to a complex set of services, which sees the company manage infrastructure and even some pieces of the application layer for customers, in a model which is similar to some services being badged 'private cloud' by its competitors.
'We manage the transition and hosting of selected applications on an HP-owned and managed infrastructure,' the company's global web site for the offering states. 'You maintain ownership and management of your application while offloading application operations and infrastructure management to HP.'
As with most private cloud models and cloud computing services in general, HP's Utility Services model allows customers to increase or decrease the amount of compute power that they are consuming, as well as being delivered by a standardised set of underlying infrastructure.
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