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Coming upgrades to HP's public cloud will see it pursue a different market from that dominated by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft – and that's a good thing for both punters and the company. Like every other traditional IT seller, HP has been slow to wake to the rise of low-cost utility computing and storage, but on Friday the …

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  1. El Limerino
    FAIL

    Different to everyone except VMware, Joyent...

    VMware has been selling its cloud stack to service providers for years -- over 220 clouds based on it today, versus the 10 or so for OpenStack. AVMware has said it will sell all the s/w used for its vCloud Hybrid Service to SPs. Joyent also resells to a couple of SPs, e.g. Telefonica. So HP's move to sell to SPs (if they ever execute on it) is not remotely unique.

    1. JackClark
      Megaphone

      Re: Different to everyone except VMware, Joyent...

      Hi there. Neither VMware or Joyent sell both the hardware and software into ISPs - that is the unique part.

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