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Blighty telecoms giant BT has struck a cloudy deal with HP Enterprise for an undisclosed sum. The company said that its IP VPN customers can now hook up directly to HPE's Helion managed cloud services. BT claimed that the direct link up would help customers to have more "reliable and secure access" when building workloads. …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Is it April Fool's day?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/21/hps_public_cloud_gets_eol_date/

    Enterprise clients can spend money extending their MPLS VPN into a service that is being canned in Jan 2016?

    I'd think BT will only be half-way into their customary 120 day lead time when the service disappears.

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    1. smiggs
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      Re: Is it April Fool's day?

      Er read the article you linked to:

      "The only truly bright spot Hilf can identify is the double-digit growth in the private Helion CloudSystem, where HP is at its most comfortable: building private clouds for enterprise customers."

      Gloriously as usual BT will be competing with themselves:

      http://www.globalservices.bt.com/uk/en/products/cloud_compute

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Is it April Fool's day?

      It is not being canned. HPE has decided to remove public cloud Helion services (as cant really compete with Azure, Google and Amazon) but are continuing to focus heavily on private cloud Helion services, which is what most companies will actually want.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    About time that El Reg dropped "HP Enterprise". Not part of HP anymore. "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" or "HPE".

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      About time that El Reg dropped "HP Enterprise". Not part of HP anymore. "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" or "HPE".

      We can test this empirically: Next time you pass a dog walker, buy that little sandwich bag they're swinging. Take the contents, and divide it in two. Discard one half, and then select a random stranger, show them you're remaining booty, and ask them what it is you've got.

      HP=HPE=A turd by any other name.

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  3. Clive 3
    Headmaster

    how many acronyms does this involve?

    Well, none actually. Acronyms are the initial letters of words pronounced as a word. e.g. scuba, laser, ASCII, etc. The ones quoted are initialisms.

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  4. Alan J. Wylie

    Who comes up with these names?

    do they really have a poorer knowledge of English than a computer bod, or is someone having a sly joke?

    Helion vs. hellion: a disorderly, troublesome, rowdy, or mischievous person.

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  5. Mr Dogshit
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    Please

    "to ink" is not a verb.

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    1. Pedigree-Pete
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      Re: Please

      To "ink" is a verb if you're an Octopus or Cuttlefish...

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  6. Ipapaveri

    This is adding to the BT cloud offering. Move to and from any hyperscaler/private cloud etc around over one secure network on one control panel with one bill while paying the same for the cloud services as you would going direct. You can also consume other services of the same network, voice, contact centre etc.

    This is not openreach so 120 lead time need not apply.

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