Public cloud is an important part of our customers’ hybrid cloud strategy, and what they tell us is that they want the ability to seamlessly bring together multiple public cloud environments, from AWS to Azure to Google to Alibaba, under a single hybrid cloud model. So, we will be evolving our strategy in public cloud to ensure that we can deliver this to our customers. We will sunset the HP Helion Public Cloud offering on January 31, 2016 and will move to an open, multiple partner-based model for providing these important capabilities to our customers through our private and managed cloud offerings.
To support this new model, we will continue to aggressively grow our partner ecosystem and integrate different public cloud environments. We are helping customers build cloud-portable applications based on OpenStack code through the HP Helion Development Platform and our work in the Cloud Foundry community. In Europe, we are leading the Cloud28+ initiative that is bringing together commercial and public sector IT vendors and EU regulators to develop common cloud service offerings across 28 different countries.
For customers who want access to existing large scale public cloud providers, we have already added greater support for Amazon Web Services as part of our hybrid delivery with HP Helion Eucalyptus and support Office/365 and Azure.
