HP announced HP Converged Cloud, the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio, based on a common architecture, spanning traditional IT, private, managed and public clouds.

Engineered for the enterprise, HP Converged Cloud extends the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information to provide choice, confidence and consistency.

“The convergence of cloud computing and mobile connectivity is changing the way infrastructures are built, applications are developed and information is delivered,” said Bill Veghte, chief strategy officer and executive vice president, Software, HP. “HP Converged Cloud enables enterprises to incorporate a blend of public, private and managed cloud services with their existing IT to create a seamless hybrid environment that rapidly adapts to their changing requirements.”

HP Cloud Services will deliver its initial offering, HP Public Infrastructure as a Service, as a public beta starting May 10. The offering provides on-demand compute instances or virtual machines, scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content to end users. As a result, developers are able to deploy services within minutes and pay only for the resources they use.

To help clients get the most out of these networks, HP is launching two new networking services. HP Virtual Network Protection Service leverages best practices to set the baseline for security at the network virtualization management layer, which helps to mitigate common threats. HP Network Cloud Optimization Service helps clients enhance their network to improve cloud-based service delivery by up to 93 percent compared to traditional download techniques.