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LinkedIn Accident Provides Tiny Telescope on HP Cloud

Scott McClellan let slip a few details about HP’s otherwise cloudy cloud plans when he updated his LinkedIn profile

Scott McClellan, the CTO and interim VP of engineering of HP's new cloud services business, let slip a few details about HP's otherwise cloudy cloud plans when he updated his LinkedIn profile.

The Register happened to capture them before they were removed.

One of the things that wasn't there was any mention of Microsoft Azure, .NET or C# although HP was supposed to be one of three companies that were going to build Azure appliances that would run local instances of Azure. The other companies were Dell and Fujitsu.

HP Léo Apotheker said nothing about Azure either when he sketched out HP's plans in March.

What McClellan did say was that there's a distributed "object storage" service built from scratch. It could be like Amazon's S3.

There's "compute," "networking" and "block storage" described as a "differentiated approach to cloud computing" - "a declarative/model-based approach where users provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management." No mention about any of that being built from scratch.

There's shared services for stuff like user management, key management, identity management and federation, authentication, authorization, auditing, billing and metering and analytics. Presumably this stuff will be common to all of HP's cloudware.

It also promises a future cloud web site with public content and authenticated user content and a developer experience consisting of "APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby and other open source languages. Fully functional GUI and CLI (both Unix/Linux and Windows)."

The Register says that it heard that HP means to flesh out more of its cloud vision at VMware's VMworld do in August, which naturally leads it to assume that it's using VMware technology.

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