HP Is Cirious About Clouds

Cirious is HP’s vision for creating an enterprise cloud software platform

Mar. 3, 2010 09:45 PM

HP Labs has opened an advanced research facility in Singapore, where it means to re-examine data center and application design principles to explore how future cloud computing needs will be met.

The facility will support a number of cloud initiatives already underway at other HP Labs sites, collaborating closely with the Service Automation and Integration Lab (SAIL) in Silicon Valley and the Automated Infrastructure Lab (AIL) in England.

Together, the three will work on Cirious, HP's vision for creating an enterprise cloud software platform.

Through applied and exploratory research, Singapore is supposed to work with customers, partners, HP business divisions and the academe to generate advances that drive Cirious research.

As part of the Open Cirrus project, HP has already partnered with Intel, Yahoo and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore to create a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for cloud computing research and education. IDA houses one of nine test bed locations worldwide.

It is also in bed with SingTel building Alatum, Singapore's largest commercial grid services platform, under IDA's Grid Service Provisioning project. Alatum offers a variety of computing power, storage and software applications on a pay-per-use, on-demand and online basis. It currently has 15 ISV partners and 70 customers.

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