Initially HP Cloud was offering a non Open Stack private cloud infrastructure as a service called Matrix. There are lots of customers of HP Cloud who are happily enjoying the service. But now they have introduced Helion now which is a Open Stack distribution. Is OpenStack beneficial for a private cloud than non Open Stack?

We all know the facts about HP Cloud’s delivery options with competitive price and importance of Open Stack. But how does the Open Stack exactly differ from the Development Platform? Does anyone know the difference between Helion’s OpenStack and Helion’s Development Platform? Either is it targeted at IT ops or developers?

Helion being the brand name of the cloud product of HP Cloud is built giving more importance to Open Stack. According to Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President of HP Cloud, this cloud infrastructure will be consistent across different environments. My only doubt is can Helion be deployed in private, public and hosted cloud environments?

We all know very well that the two big public clouds Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services to receive direct links from Equinix. Now I heard that Google’s public cloud has also joined the exchange to receive private direct links which offers a high performance, secure connection that bypasses the public Internet. Is Equinix really offering private direct links to Google Compute Platform?

 I heard that automatic scaling available to everyone on Google Cloud Platform. Even though automatic scaling isn’t new to the cloud world, it is new to the masses on Google’s Cloud Platform. It is said that this service is now in Beta, which is Google-speak for widely available. Does anyone know more about this? Please update….

I heard that Siaras, a new company targets on integrating clouds with Wide Area Networks (WANs). Siaras cloudscape platform is focused at service providers who would like to sell WAN on demand as a service. This is similar to cloud services. Has Siaras launched WAN for connecting Clouds and what is your opinion on this new venture?

I heard that Spanish telco has joined Equinix Cloud Exchange to connect to multitude of cloud providers. It is expected that this business venture will provide all its customers the ability to choose from the best combination of cloud infrastructure, platform and software service providers to ensure they can put the best possible hybrid cloud solution in place to meet their individual business needs. What is your opinion on this business collaboration?

We all know very well that Amazon web services is already providing cloud computing services at low prices to customers like Netflix and Central Intelligence Agency CIA. Now it is heard that Amazon is trying to attract more business customers and become a competitor to business technology suppliers like Oracle. Is Amazon moving to extend Cloud Computing Dominance?

I have been reading on this new technology but I do not know much about its inner working. Please briefly bring me to speed with how IP address systems because I am aware that the SDN technology performs similar roles as conversion IP routing and switching systems. Do you know if this new paradigm of SDN is catching on? Could it be the future or it will take a long time for it to exhibit a visible present in IT infrastructure?

I am looking for an expert in IPs and VLAN to give me some insight into these very important networking technologies. I would like the expert to explain what programmatically allocating IPs and VLAN means. Does this mean that you can write a computer program in such a manner that it will allocate IPs and VLAN when the request is made or it has an entirely different connotation?