HP Helion - This happened so quickly that if you blinked, you might've missed it. HP has had various toes dipped into various cloud projects over the years, but in 2014 they launched Helion as their Openstack-based cloud... only to sunset it less than two years later!
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TBH, half a dozen companies bet on OpenStack and lost. Cisco, EMC, Mirantis, etc.
HP Helion was IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) while Amazon is more of a SaaS (software as a service). The Helion horizon user interface was something only an engineer could love and no where as well thought out from a customer's perspective as AWS. The public cloud (yes, HP had a public cloud) was done in a "if at first you don't succeed, give up" mindset. For decades now, HP (and now HPE) has had a "billion dollars of revenue in the first year" philosophy. I agree with the lack of vision, but given the incompetence of the BOD for the last 20 years there is also a desperate need to win the lottery. Doing the heavy lifting and actually building something is just not in the DNA anymore. It wasn't Meg that started that, Carly gets the credit.
They probably refused to price it competitively, and I'm sure the execs were shocked, just shocked when customers flocked to Amazon and Google... even Azure when HP tried to shove their overpriced cloud services on customers, and the customers took their consulting business with them. The impatient CEO and her board snatched the rug up from under it before the company could leverage Helion to get more business in other areas.
Same thing happened to the WebOS-powered ThinkPad - a decent product that was overpriced (same sticker as the iPad) and not even subsidized by cellular companies (the cellular version never got officially released) like Apple's tablets.
Meg and her buddies have no vision. They have no concept of "loss leader" or how to structure pricing to satisfy customers and compete while driving business to the enterprise consultants.