As I wrote previously, I had the opportunity to go to the HP’s biggest European [enterprise] event of the year, Discover 2011, last week, held in the city of Vienna in Austria. To be honest, I did not really know what to expect since I’m not all that familiar with HP’s solutions in virtualization area and it was initially a little bit out-of-place experience for an application –focused guy like me.

So a while ago I was researching available cloud platforms as an infrastructure platform for a little skunkworks project of ours, and decided to concentrate on the bigger players that I already did know about by the reputation – but not so much in nitty-gritty details. Namely these two players were Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s EC2 or (AWS).