HP said on Monday it has launched CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software and consulting services, and aims to speed up the construction of private clouds.
CloudStart is offered by HP Cloud Consulting Services and will use the company’s Cloud Service Automation tools, which helps enterprises with their cloud installations and provides automation tools to manage cloud-based applications, according to HP. CloudStart will also use its storage and blade servers, HP said in a statement.
HP said CloudStart should allow an enterprise to build a private cloud in 30 days. Clouds can be rolled out in a number of different ways: using a cloud service provider like Amazon, building one internally or using a mixture of the two. The latter is usually called a hybrid cloud.
According to HP, the CloudStart package is available in Asia-Pacific and Japan now, and is expected to be available in the rest of the world in December, but didn’t provide any pricing information.