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HP, expanding the activity in the market of cloud computing, signed in September, 2014 the purchase agreement of Eucalyptus company, developer of the platform for creation of clouds. Eucalyptus offers the Open source software for creation of clouds with the programming interfaces similar to used for work with Amazon Web Services. Using software of Eucalyptus of the organization can create own private clouds and transfer working tasks between them and AWS services.
Analysts note that acquisition of any company – an exceptional case for HP since that moment as in 2011 for $11 billion the British Autonomy was unsuccessfully purchased. The Eucalyptus Software company delivers the open source software for construction of private and hybrid clouds. In spite of the fact that officially the amount of purchase are not called, according to insiders of Reuters $100 million are about digit, smaller.