{"id":16287,"date":"2015-07-29T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=231611"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:16:29","slug":"hp-to-buy-stackato-to-boost-hybrid-cloud-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hp-to-buy-stackato-to-boost-hybrid-cloud-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"HP to buy Stackato to boost hybrid cloud strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_185612\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/05\/HP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/05\/HP-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"HP is buying Stackato to boost support for Linux containers\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HP is buying Stackato to boost support for Linux containers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>HP is to acquire ActiveState\u2019s Stackato business for an undisclosed sum, which the company said would give a boost to its hybrid cloud\u00a0strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Like HP Helion Development Platform, Stackato\u2019s platform as a service is built on Cloud Foundry and offers robust support for Docker, which is gaining the lion\u2019s share of attention in the Linux container world. It offers deployments on a range of cloud infrastructure including AWS, VMware, OpenStack, HP Cloud and KVM.<\/p>\n<p>HP said the move would strengthen its hybrid cloud strategy, which largely puts application catalogues, workload automation, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack front and centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stackato PaaS solution strengthens the HP Helion portfolio and reinforces HP&#8217;s commitment to delivering customers open source solutions that help accelerate their transition to hybrid clouds,\u201d said Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President, product and service management, HP Cloud. \u201cThe acquisition reinforces HP&#8217;s focus on driving Cloud Foundry as the open standard cloud native application platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the acquisition closes, which is expected to occur sometime in Q4 this year, HP will integrate Stackato into the Helion Development Platform.<\/p>\n<p>The strong support for Linux containers will help HP build on its hybrid cloud strategy. Containers are useful in part because they are extremely portable and can run on pretty much any infrastructure, a useful feature when it comes to lifting and shifting workloads and application components in heterogeneous infrastructure environments. In an interview with BCN earlier this month Xavier Poisson, vice president of HP Helion in EMEA said Linux containers are increasingly at the core of cloud-native app development &#8211; so anything that can boost the company&#8217;s support of containers could make it more competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP is to acquire ActiveState&rsquo;s Stackato business for an undisclosed sum, which the company said would give a boost to its hybrid cloud strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3109,2028,1871,3110,573,2357,1976,67,3111,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-hilf","category-cloud-foundry","category-docker","category-helion","category-hp","category-linux-containers","category-news-analysis","category-openstack","category-stackato","category-xavier-poisson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16288,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}