So how does this relate to http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/hp_cloud28_customers/ ?
Defeated HP will put Helion cloud out of its misery in January 2016
Both of HP Helion public cloud customers have until January 31, 2016 to find another home for their off-site software and data. The Helion service was put on death row in April, when HP exec Bill Hilf said public cloud "made no sense" for his company. That same month, within days of signing Helion's death warrant, Hilf …
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Thursday 22nd October 2015 22:15 GMT Steven Roper
"Still not being clear then. WTF does "sunset" mean in that context?"
It means that if you were relying on them for your data storage needs you're going to lose all your data if you don't find someone else to store it, and go through the hassle of copying it all over to your new provider - which if it is GBs or TBs worth, is going to take some time and cost quite a bit of bandwidth.
Which is one major reason why my company doesn't use cloud services, and never will, no matter how much the snake-oil salesmen push it on us.
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