Online Communities
- HP Consumer Support Forum
- Get answers on HP's peer to peer support forum.
- Enterprise Business Community
- Meet other users, find solutions, share your thoughts and best practices.
- HP Software Solutions Forum
- Your place to connect with peers and HP experts and access a wealth of content.
For Stackers in the Seattle, Washington area, Joe Heck will talk about the OpenStack™ Keystone project at this week’s 
-
Sr. Product Manager
-
Blake is a Product Manager in HP's emerging Cloud Services focusing on cloud products and technologi
es. Prior to joining HP, Blake served as the Product Line Leader for Cloud Compute at San Antonio based Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosted IT services and Cloud Computing. During his tenure there, Blake's team focused on driving the developmen t and growth of the Cloud Servers product line and launching the Managed Cloud Service Level. Previously , Blake was VP of Research and Developmen t for Gandinnova tions, a grand-form at digital inkjet printer manufactur er based in Toronto. Blake lives in San Antonio, Texas where he and his wife enjoy spending time outdoors running, bicycling, fishing and hunting. They are also avid travelers who enjoy seeing new places and sampling the local fare. Blake can be reached via email at blake.yeag er@hp.com or on twitter: @Blake_Yea ger. -
Blog Administrator
-
Product Management
-
Brant leads HP Cloud Services’ Product Management function for those parts of our system that are behind the scenes or that span our service offerings. Included in that is the Identity Service, the Manage console, the Bindings and CLIs, system security, the billing system, sales and support tools and others. Before joining HP Cloud Services, Brant spent many years in other parts of HP where he, among other things, managed the first 2G wireless iPAQ Pocket PC offering, oversaw the developmen
t of the industry’s first low cost fingerprin t reader, devised the BioAPI consortium and was Marketing Chairman for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. Brant lives in Houston with his wife and family where he’s an avid swimmer and Boy Scout leader. He also enjoys skiing, snowboardi ng, scuba diving, rafting and kayaking. He even once fought off a wild bear – you can bet there’s more to that story. Brant holds degrees from Claremont McKenna College, Dartmouth College and MIT. He can be reached at brant.jone s@hp.com or you can follow him on Twitter: @partly_cl oudy1 -
HP Fellow
-
Recently joined HP’s services lab with a focus to identify ways to pull lab activities into HP Services as well as harvest some of the ideas and opportunit
ies in the services organizati on back into the research space. I've been utility player for EDS (and now HP) performing a variety of roles in recent years like the Chief Technologi st of EDS' Applicatio n Delivery organizati on, the acting VP for Applicatio n Portfolio during the creation of EDS' applicatio n portfolio strategy and the chief technologi st for the relationsh ip between EDS and a large consumer products company. I've supported a variety of industries including process manufactur ing, discrete manufactur ing, engineerin g, consumer products, financial systems and health care. I am known as a team builder who interfaces across and within organizati onal boundaries to develop team solutions and I constantly strive to understand innovation both within and outside HP. My value has been that of a pioneer-- typically knowing where the explorers have gone and identifyin g the best path for others to follow. I try to cultivate a large resource network inside and outside HP, which helps facilitate the process of clearing overgrown routes and enabling efficient and effective movement of the larger group to meet common and corporate objectives . -
Customer/Partner Relations
-
Darlene has 20 years technology marketing experience and currently works with HP’s Cloud Services. She has held a range of positions within marketing with Tandem, Compaq and HP, including working in the gaming, media, entertainm
ent and telecom industries . Prior to HP, Darlene worked in telecom industry with customers from enterprise , small and midmarket, and consumer segments. She held a variety of roles across marketing, sales, customer satisfacti on and quality management at Nortel, Pacific Telesis, and PacTel. She has taught public relations, has been a Texas and California state examiner for the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, and an ISO auditor. She received her degree from Pepperdine University and although originally from Southern California , she currently resides in Austin, Texas. Darlene can be reached via e-mail at darlene.ly nch@hp.com -
Sr. Product Manager
-
Gavin Pratt is on the HP Cloud Services product management team, where he focuses on storage, networking
, and CDN services. Before joining HP Cloud Services, Gavin held a number of corporate and business unit strategy-r elated roles at HP, where he spent a significan t amount of his time on cloud computing. Before HP, Gavin worked at a small technology startup, and before that, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group. Gavin holds an MBA in Finance & Strategic Management from The Wharton School and a BA in Economics from Yale University . He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, and he is an enthusiast of: travelling , sushi, standup comedy, and everything technology -related. -
Developer Experience
-
Jeff wrote his first e-commerce site in 1997 for an amusement park, spent a few years at Whole Foods Market managing web server load, creating CMSes and writing web interfaces to pricing systems, spent a decade doing all manner of Perl, PHP and Ruby projects at a small web consultanc
y and is now the server guy on the Developer Experience team at HP Cloud Services.J eff lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, new baby and very cute corgi. You can find him on twitter as @jeffk, posting about interestin g augmented reality, 3d manufactur ing and other near-futur e technologi es. -
VP, Cloud Infrastructure
-
John Purrier is Vice President of Cloud Infrastruc
ture for HP Cloud Services. John oversees engineerin g, service/te chnical operation and customer satisfacti on. Prior to HP, John worked as a director of OpenStack at Rackspace, where he drove the developmen t of this industry leading open source cloud computing project. John brings more than 30 years of technology expertise to HP, with roles at IBM and Microsoft, as well as a variety of startups. Over the course of John’s career he has served as chief software architect, director of product developmen t, CTO and has been the CEO of two different companies. John lives in San Antonio, TX and enjoys live music and spending time with his family and friends. -
Dir. Mktg. Communications
-
Karen Reynolds is Director of Marketing Communicat
ions, ensuring the HP Cloud Services vision and strategy are communicat ed with world-clas s execution. Her responsibi lities include leading and driving brand identity, messaging, PR/AR/Infl uencer relations, event marketing and executive communicat ions and employee engagement activities , ensuring alignment across the team as well as HP. Prior to joining HP’s public cloud team, Karen led executive communicat ions for PSG Americas, HP’s largest regional business where she provided strategic communicat ions counsel to the SVP and GM of HP’s PC business and led messaging across the region’s senior leadership team. Karen has over 25 years’ experience in technology communicat ions and has worked for iconic Silicon Valley companies, including leading global marketing and communicat ions for companies both large and small, such as Azul Systems, Autodesk and Sun Microsyste ms. You can follow Karen on Twitter @karenreyn olds. -
Dir. of Product Management
-
Marc is the Director of Product Management for HP Cloud Services. Marc’s team is responsibl
e for defining and prioritizi ng the services and features deployed on hpcloud.co m and working with other HP teams, customers, and ecosystem partners to create public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Prior to joining HP, Marc served in a variety of product management roles with his 11+ years at Dell and 5+ years at a local startup in Austin, Texas. While at Dell, Marc worked in the Data Center Solutions, Web/Custom er Services, Enterprise Products, and Client Systems Groups. Before Dell, Marc worked at Asyst Technologi es (formerly “PST”), a company that specialize s in semiconduc tor and flat panel display factory automation solutions. Marc lives in Austin, Texas where he and his wife enjoy spending time running around to different kid activities . Marc also likes tinkering with media solutions and relaxing with movies and music. -
HP Cloud Services
-
Margot has over 12 years experience in technology product marketing, product management
, and corporate marketing. Prior to joining HP, Margot served as Director of Product Marketing for YouSendIt, a cloud collaborat ion, cloud storage, and cloud file transfer provider, and Director of Marketing for Space-Time Insight, a business intelligen ce software vendor. Previously , she was director of product marketing for companies including Imperva, a web applicatio n and database security vendor, and Merced Systems, a performanc e management software company. Margot founded a mobile games startup that launched an iPhone game in the early days of the iTunes AppStore. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Manager, Product Marketing for Hyperion Solutions’ business intelligen ce products. Margot lives in San Francisco, California where she enjoys exploring the city. Margot can be reached via email at margot.rud ell@hp.com . -
HP Cloud Services
-
Monty is Manager of Developer Automation and Infrastruc
ture for HP Cloud Services. He runs the developer tooling, automation and process for the OpenStack project, is an at-large member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board, and is a regular conference speaker around the world. Monty has been with OpenStack since its inception, but before that was a core developer on Drizzle at Rackspace, and a Senior Consultant at MySQL, Inc. He's also started several companies related to Open Source software for the entertainm ent production industry, and he is an accomplish ed lighting designer. Monty splits his time between Seattle and New York where he works with several bands and theatre companies. -
Developer Experience
-
Pete Johnson created one of the first web applicatio
ns ever built inside Hewlett Packard during the mid 1990's, served a stint as the HP.com Chief Architect, and now works on HP's cloud initiative s. You can find him on Twitter or LinkedIn as nerdguru and his retired blog on the importance of soft skills in technical careers can be found at http://blo g.nerdguru .net -
HP Cloud Services
-
Peter is a project manager in HP’s Cloud Services business, engineerin
g HP’s upcoming global-sca le public cloud. Prior to this he managed research in HP Labs on automated cloud infrastruc ture, and led the HP Labs SE3D program, a cloud-base d service for digital media production , which — among other things — showcased the world’s first automated, market-bas ed computing utility. -
Developer Experience
-
Business Technology Leader and Strategist with expertise in building and managing cost-effec
tive and high-perfo rmance technical teams in both tactical and strategic operating models for complex global organizati ons. Deep technical knowledge of software architectu res and emerging technology with practical experience in all phases of the software lifecycle, from initial feasibilit y and opportunit y analysis to design, constructi on and enhancemen t. Skilled and experience d at presenting complex technical informatio n at an executive level and clearly articulati ng the implicatio ns and opportunit ies that arise to improve cost structures or create strategic advantages . -
Developer Experience
-
Rupak started writing web applicatio
ns 1992 and had worked on an engine to embed dynamic data into HTML pages, to drive a live webcast of the World Cup Cricket in 1996. He has since dabbled in C/C++, .NET, Ruby and Rails platforms. He has worked at Compaq and then HP, as a Solution Architect on their eCommerce website for many years, before moving into the HP Cloud Services, Developer Experience team in 2010, working on the next generation cloud platform focusing on building applicatio ns, the Ruby language bindings, the Unix CLI, and Openstack APIs to enrich the developer experience . To fuel his personal passion as a developer, Rupak has been developing applicatio ns in his spare time, using Ruby, Rails, and Titanium. He loves, supports and contribute s to OpenSource software and to that end, he also serves as the Managing Editor for the Rails Magazine, a free magazine for the Rails community. Rupak Ganguly lives in the Greater Atlanta area of Georgia with his lovely wife and two kids. He can be reached at Twitter @rupakg and also blogs at http://rai ls.webinte llix.com -
Data Services Product Mgr.
-
Sandro is assuming product management responsibi
lities for Data Services programs, including Databases, Memcache, and Analytics. He joined HP (through Compaq merger) 10+ years ago as Software Product Manager. He has been creating products in various domains: Telecom Service Level Management , Business Intelligen ce (strategic Analytics and CIO Scorecard) and IT Service Management . He recently was a Product Marketing Manager on HP Cloud Service Automation . He was mostly responsibl e for Dev-Ops initiative s, Service Providers market, technical marketing and supporting EMEA business. Prior to HP, Sandro worked as a R&D Director for Swisscom (Swiss incumbent telecom service provider) leading several projects in the area of Customer Care, Service and Network Management . Sandro holds a PhD in Computer Science that he obtained at university of Nice Sophia-Ant ipolis. • Soccer: member of HP team, coach (for youth soccer) and as well as a fan of OGC Nice (the city he was born in) • Travel: special fan of paradisiac island (Hawaii, Seychelles , Tahiti, …) • Food: I am half French and half Italian!!! Sandro can be reached via email at sandro.maz ziotta@hp. com or on twitter: @smazziott a -
Research Scientist
-
Steve Loughran is a researcher at HP Laboratori
es in the UK on datacenter & cloud computing infrastruc ture. He is the author of the book "Ant in Action", is an Apache member and a committer in the Apache Ant and Apache Hadoop projects. He is also an evangelist of test-drive n developmen t and specialize s in breaking things. -
SVP, GM HP Cloud Services
-
Zorawar Biri Singh is senior vice president and general manager for Cloud Services at HP. He has global responsibi
lity for HP’s public cloud infrastruc ture, platform services, cloud solutions and cloud ecosystem for developers , independen t software vendors, service providers and enterprise s. Singh has more than 20 years of global leadership experience as an executive and serial entreprene ur in enterprise IT, online advertisin g, e-commerce and telecommun ications. He has an extensive products background in infrastruc ture software, cloud computing services, data center and internet scale-out infrastruc ture, and networking . Prior to joining HP, Singh was vice president of Cloud Computing at IBM, where he helped lead corporate- wide strategy and solutions for cloud computing. He joined IBM in 2008 through the acquisitio n of Encentuate , Inc., an identity and access management security company, where he served as chief executive officer. Singh also previously served as CEO of Pivia, a network accelerati on appliance company acquired by F5 Networks; JRG, a Consumer Packaged Goods-focu sed software-a s-a-servic e company acquired by CDC; and e-commerce startup Idapta. Earlier, he was chief operating officer of RelevantKn owledge / MediaMetri x, a pioneer in online advertisin g ratings and Internet audience measuremen t, which today is part of comScore Inc. Singh started his career at NORTEL as a product line manager. Singh holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from North Carolina State University .
