Australian entities are eligible to sign up for the test version of Hewlett-Packard’s new public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service offering, unveiled in the US this week, new enterprise media manager Stephanie Aye has confirmed. The service is said to be H-P’s effort at grabbing back customers it has been losing to Amazon.com (CDN, yesterday).
It will available globally, including in Australia, from May 10, H-P says, and so far about 50 percent of customers signing up are in the US, 50 percent outside.

Datacentres hosting the cloud service are all currently in the US, but H-P says expansion plans are slated for new facilities in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific/Japan regions.