We're looking for an open stack platform. The whole HPE wraparound support and everything that we can get with an open source project is what we are looking at.

Helion Being backed by a vendor (HPE) rather than vanilla openstack gives us a little more confidence that the product is now at a level of maturity where we are happy to start consuming open technologies.

What matters is whether the end product that you deliver to your customers fixed their problem. To me, it is all about solving and fixing problems. So it always comes down the whether it helped you fix your customers’ problems.

HPE Helion provides access to world-class personnel and skill sets. Their ability to perform repeatedly at a high standard provides a positive experience. The reason I outsource a lot to HPE is because they are very good at what they do. I do not have the resources internally to do a lot of this myself; so I speak very highly of them.

The most valuable feature is our access to private and public clouds.

It has a really great GUI so it's easy to use. You can get an overview of the different services you define and how to automate them and bring them into the infrastructure.

Scalability, it's very important.