HP announced HP Helion Rack, a new pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested private cloud solution, based on OpenStack® and Cloud Foundry® technologies integrated with HP server hardware. HP said the Helion Rack is designed to help enterprise IT departments speed their cloud 
deployments, avoiding months designing, developing and deploying a private cloud, by integrating cloud management software and industry leading infrastructure with best practices.
HP Helion Rack enables rapid infrastructure provisioning for development and production workloads, is optimized for hosting applications that require secure, compliant and performance tuned infrastructure, and provides a platform for developing, designing and deploying cloud native applications.
HP Helion Rack provides a complete private cloud, with integrated infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities that support cloud native applications. Key features/benefits include:
- Cloud economics for private cloud deployments – Integrated open source cloud software and industry standard hardware accelerate private cloud implementations.
- Rapid deployment
- Simplified management – A common software and hardware platform architecture simplifies support, administration, updates and maintenance.
- Easy scaling – Additional storage and compute nodes and scale up within each node.
- Workload flexibility
- Faster cloud-native application development – Easy access to integrated application services, such as database and messaging services, that add scalability and high availability to applications with multiple language and framework support.
- Open architecture
HP Helion Rack, including HP HelionOpenStack, HP Helion Development Platform and HP ProLiant DL servers, is built at the HP factory and arrives ready for installation by HP experts. It offers HP partners the opportunity to differentiate themselves by meeting customer needs faster with a proven, complete OpenStack technology private cloud solution that also leverages their HP infrastructure expertise. HP partners also provide a strong ecosystem for customers to leverage for support in onboarding cloud services, scaling out the solution, and operating their cloud solution.
Pricing and availability
HP Helion Rack will be available in April. Pricing varies by configuration.
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