HP says new research indicates 75% of enterprise IT will be delivered across private, managed and public clouds by 2016, half of the respondents believe that open standards are important in the emergence of cloud computing, and 43% said that finding the right partner to get them started was a barrier to cloud adoption. To help address these opportunities, this week the company unveiled a number of product, service and financial offerings highlighted by the Cloud OS, an OpenStack-based architecture for its Converged Cloud. “The reality is that customers want hybrid,” said COO Bill Veghte. “We set out to build the cloud that enterprises rely on.” Only HP has the portfolio and expertise that combines the innovative power of open systems with enterprise-grade manageability and security, he said. “The result for customers is a cloud that enterprises can rely on.” Cloud demand – and spending – is exploding ($109 billion in 2012, up 20% from 2011), especially on hosted private cloud (HPC) services, a market that is growing at more than 50% a year, and will exceed $24 billion in 2016. HP’s success – and that of its competitors like Amazon, IBM, Savvis and Rackspace – requires achieving leadership in [...]