HP unimpressed by cloud "hype"
Posted on 11 Dec 2008 at 08:37
HP executives have admitted to being unimpressed by the current "hype" surrounding the move to the cloud.
The cloud offers businesses the ability to access software, services and storage over the web rather than hosting the software and hardware locally. However, according to HP even the industry is still trying to work out what the cloud actually means.
"A lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon of cloud, but I have not heard two people say the same thing about it," Andy Isherwood, HP's vice president for software services in Europe, tells Zdnet. "There are multiple definitions out there of 'the cloud'."
Speaking at the HP Software Universe show and conference in Vienna, Tom Hogan, senior vice president for software at HP said companies needed to be more deliberate in their approach to software as a service.
"Rather than jump in to the hype [around cloud computing] out of the gate - you can't pick up a newspaper or a technology magazine today without reading about the cloud - we have been very deliberate over the past nine months, assessing where we think the cloud can help us", Hogan said.
The cloud has been the industry's bizz buzzword for the last year, however not everyone is convinced. Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison described the concept "as complete gibberish".
Author: Stuart Turton
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