HP Helion Hosts Virtual Private Cloud Streamlined

HP announced the launch of a new product in its portfolio of private cloud services. The new service is called Hewlett-Packard Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (LPC) Lean, which features low prices and streamlined features. .

The new service VPC Lite is just a lightweight repackage of HP's existing Enterprise Hosted Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) suite, providing customers with a simpler environment that allows them to enter the VPC to run something like device testing. The workload does not require more advanced features.

Although the name of the new product also contains Helion, the hosted VPC Lite is based on HP's old private cloud technology and not based on OpenStack. The Helion public cloud, which HP has been actively promoting, is based on OpenStack. That is, hosted VPC Lite runs on devices in the HP Data Center. HP is working on integrating OpenStack into its VPC.

Hewlett-Packard Helion is HP's latest cloud computing brand, and HP's cloud products (based on OpenStack technology) and support services will be incorporated into its new Helion product portfolio. The goal of the project is to create a hybrid cloud service that integrates existing IT infrastructure with new technologies. In fact, HP offers many options and upgrades for VPC Lite installations, including those that require more comprehensive security. IPSEC VPN connectivity, high-availability compute cluster configuration, backup and data retention plans, additional SAP HANA storage devices, and more.

Hewlett-Packard said that the hosted VPC Lite is distributed worldwide, starting at $168 per month for a small virtual server configuration and is said to be about 40% cheaper than the HP standard enterprise VPC. There are discounts for bulk purchases.