HP Takes Developer Slant With Cloud Offering

Your options for having a software development lab in the cloud are increasing. Here’s how to get your dev lab there.

Michael Biddick, CEO, Fusion PPT

March 28, 2012

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Software developers were among the first users of cloud environments. Amazon, Microsoft, and Joyent all cater to developers with their public cloud services, and Hewlett-Packard also will emphasize developer tools in its upcoming cloud offering.

HP says it will run its cloud services, due to move out of beta testing later this spring, out of dozens of small data centers worldwide. It plans to have bindings--hardware interfaces--for Java, .NET, PHP, and Ruby.

Management tools for the new cloud environment will be simple, intuitive, and focused on supporting rapid development and providing sophisticated reporting and access control, HP says. As such, HP is clearly aiming to win over developers, with hopes that the software and services they create will remain in the HP cloud as they move into production.

Other providers are making it easier for developers to use their cloud services. Microsoft, with Windows Azure, isn't restricting developers to using .NET, even though Azure is a Windows Server-based environment. Microsoft provides language-specific SDKs for .NET, Java, PHP, and Node.js. A general Windows Azure SDK provides basic support for any language, including C++ and Python.

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About the Author

Michael Biddick

CEO, Fusion PPT

As CEO of Fusion PPT, Michael Biddick is responsible for overall quality and innovation. Over the past 15 years, Michael has worked with hundreds of government and international commercial organizations, leveraging his unique blend of deep technology experience coupled with business and information management acumen to help clients reduce costs, increase transparency and speed efficient decision making while maintaining quality. Prior to joining Fusion PPT, Michael spent 10 years with a boutique-consulting firm and Booz Allen Hamilton, developing enterprise management solutions. He previously served on the academic staff of the University of Wisconsin Law School as the Director of Information Technology. Michael earned a Master's of Science from Johns Hopkins University and a dual Bachelor's degree in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael is also a contributing editor at InformationWeek Magazine and Network Computing Magazine and has published over 50 recent articles on Cloud Computing, Federal CIO Strategy, PMOs and Application Performance Optimization. He holds multiple vendor technical certifications and is a certified ITIL v3 Expert.

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