Hewlett-Packard's chief initiative is Converged Cloud, exec says

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

Turmoil in the upper ranks has caused consternation among customers over the past few years and while Amazon made early inroads in dominating the market for cloud services, HP has been relatively late to the game. The company announced its strategy to seamlessly extend existing enterprise resources through a hybrid cloud approach using OpenStack just a year ago.

Today, HP's Converged Cloud still remains a bit of a dark horse in the race for cloud business, though it offers compute, storage and content delivery services, and has been upgrading its IT management software to accommodate virtual workloads in the cloud as well.

Prior to leading HP's cloud business, Gillai headed the development, marketing and sales of HP networking products for the cloud, and served as chief technology officer for the networking group. He also worked at Cisco Systems as well as 3Com, prior to HP's acquisition of 3Com.

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