Hewlett-Packard kicked off its Discover conference in Barcelona with news it is now offering an on-demand version of its Haven Big Data platform and is working to drive the cloud toolkit deeper into suite of information technology tools.
The HP Helion cloud-based Haven provides tools to analyze machine data and human information to create software and services rapidly. The OnDemand version affords developers and data scientists direct access to the components of Haven that their applications require.
Haven OnDemand's accessibility is key to helping organizations succeed in quickly evolving markets, delivering information at "high speed and in context," according to Robert Youngjohns, general manager and executive vice president of HP Software.
"With today's announcement, we are making our unique Big Data platform more accessible and adaptable than ever before, giving customers, partners, and developers an unmatched set of assets that can help them create winning, data-driven businesses," says Youngjohns.
HP will reveal the pricing and availability of Haven OnDemand sometime during the first quarter of the 2014 calendar year. The software giant says Haven OnDemand will start at a price point of $999.
Along with revealing Haven OnDemand and a deeper integration of the toolkit into its own IT suite, HP also announced that it is partnering with Microsoft to package Office 365 with HP enterprise services. HP's business clients want to build and maintain a collaborative workplace that leverages "end-to-end solutions" that are capable and flexible enough to tackle the complexities of enterprise environments, according to Mike Nefkens, executive vice president of HP Enterprise Services.
"Teaming up with Microsoft will allow HP to offer our industry-leading enterprise services with Microsoft's widely adopted Office 365 suite, starting with Exchange Online running on HP servers in HP data centers," says Nefkens.
HP's efforts to further establish itself as a service provider in the enterprise market is akin to aspirations of IBM. While HP recently reported flat revenue for its third quarter, IBM has all but admitted embarrassment in its attempt to shed its hardware business and find a future in the cloud.
A few weeks before HP unveiled Haven OnDemand, IBM launched its latest attempt to get businesses to put more trust in cloud platforms. IBM revealed the single-tenant version of its Bluemix can be deployed as a secure pipeline between customer-facing apps and extremely sensitive data locked away back on campus.
