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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by wmf » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #18

Rackspace Inc. announced earlier this year that it would no longer sell such services What?

Rackspace has gradually transitioned from "cloud with optional support" to "support with cloud thrown in" to "support for AWS".

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by mattbee » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

Their server hardware has always been excellent. I'd pay extra if they didn't take 3 minutes from power on to booting :)

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by esaym » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

The microservers weren't too bad: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d...

For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by dikaiosune » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:32 PM UTC

Hopefully this doesn't affect their whole memristor project. While the increasingly vaporware status of The Machine (dun-dun-dun) has been disheartening, I like that they were trying to move past von-Neumann (sp?).

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by avn2109 » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:43 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

Do you count Agilent products as HP? Probably not, but if so they make a bunch of pretty solid instruments. And arguably the name "HP" should be associated with the entity that today we call "Agilent."

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by criddell » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:54 PM UTC

actaeon169 wrote: post #15

pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

The HP-28S

I bought a 28S in 1989 or 1990 and it's still working. Last year I saw the HP 35s and bought one. I'm still using the 28S even though my battery door is broken as is some of the plastic around the battery door.

The 35s is soooo close to being a great device, but a few things drive me nuts.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by roymurdock » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:59 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #7

Relevant and prescient Onion video: http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-offers-that-cloud-thing-eve...

I guess 1000 cloud storage capacity wasn't enough.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by a3n » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 11:59 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #20

ghshephard wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just google the title and you can hop right into the story.

That's what the "web" link under the title does for you, just for that reason.

That link should probably say "google", not "web".

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by a3n » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:01 AM UTC

qhoc wrote: post #3

Also we should stop or block people from posting links from wsj.com because they asked to sign up for membership before you can read more.

Select the title from the article, right-click on it and search your favorite search engine. Or subscribe.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=H-P+Winds+Down+Cloud-Computin...

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/hp-winds-down-cloudcomputing-p...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2996184/cloud-computing/hp-...

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by dab19008 » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:07 AM UTC

So OpenStack is now officially dead on the public cloud. The writing has been on the wall for years.

We'll see how long the "private cloud" movement lasts with the results that Amazon has been posting, and with IBM hiring every OpenStack developer they can find.