HP Bloggers Summit

I attended a cloud conference this week in Cupertino, CA at the HP Executive Briefing Center that outlines all of HP’s cloud offerings. I found it very helpful; HP as a number of excellent cloud solutions for the enterprise. Unfortunately they did not seem to have offerings for small businesses that looked as easy as the solutions I recommend here, but for medium-sized to enterprise-level I would definitely recommend you look into their offerings.

I was very impressed how HP attempts to educate potential customers instead of selling them. Of course education is part of the selling process, but they seemed to do so without giving a hard sell. For instance, there are not product numbers all over their diagrams showing people how HP can help with those solutions. Of course when the client asks they are happy to explain, but they sell these services from an education angle which I think is the right way to do it.

HP does not seem to have many cloud services that compare to Amazon S3 or cloud hosting providers in that you cannot go to their website and get a tour, see the prices, and sign up. I think that is a mistake as that will scare off almost any small business (though I don’t think that is their target right now).

Here are some of the presentations on Slideshare:

• HP Cloud Assure
• Effectively Managing Cloud Solutions in 5 Steps
• LoadRunner in the Cloud
• HP Cloud Services Enablement
• HP Cloud Services
• Fast Track Your Private Cloud Transformation
• HP Solutions for a Fast Track World

There were a number of other bloggers who attended the event, and you’ll want to check out their blogs:

• Allessandro Perilli
• Anthony Park
• Chris Evans
• Geva Perry
• Michael Knuckey
• Phillip Jaenke

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