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Cloud Computing Leader Zorawar Singh Leaves Hewlett Packard
ARIK HESSELDAHL
Word has just leaked out of Hewlett-Packard that Zorawar “Biri” Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cloud Services, is leaving the company.
Roger Levy, the group’s vice president for technology and customer relations, will replace him on an interim basis.
I haven’t been able to find out if Zorawar is leaving for another job or if he’s just leaving.
The departure was confirmed by an HP spokesman moments ago, sending the following statement:
“HP remains committed to our Converged Cloud portfolio. In particular, HP Cloud Services is critical to HP’s efforts to deliver superior public cloud infrastructure, services and solutions to our customers. Roger Levy, vice president, Technology and Customer Operations of HP Cloud Services, will serve as the interim leader for HP Cloud Services. The company thanks Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh for his passion and commitment to drive our public cloud vision and wish him well.”
Zorawar Singh had overseen HP’s global cloud computing footprint, including its infrastructure, platform services and ecosystem efforts.
He joined HP from IBM, hired by former CEO Léo Apotheker to build a cloud service platform that could compete with Amazon Web Services. Apotheker announced the effort at a big HP event in San Francisco in March of 2011.
It’s one part of the strategy elements initiated by Apotheker -- who was CEO for only about 11 months -- that HP has kept in place.
[Courtesy: All Things D]
January 18, 2013
Conversation about this article
1: Harinder (Uttar Pradesh, India), January 18, 2013, 8:36 AM.
Just continue going boldly, as you've always done, where no man has ever gone before ...
2: Kanwarjeet Singh (USA), January 18, 2013, 1:23 PM.
I see a hint of 'I can do this better on my own' in his eyes. Go boldly and in chardi kala, as Harinder (above) said.
3: Jagdeep (Punjab), January 18, 2013, 2:14 PM.
Best of luck. I wish that you and some other top Sikh IT professionals get together and start an IT firm and take over the IT world. Our youth need such role models!
4: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), January 18, 2013, 4:48 PM.
You already have a head-start and came with the name Zorawar Singh. Go forth in chardi kalaa, the world is waiting to fall at your feet. Gur Rakha.
5: Gutbucket Singh (Sriganganagar, India), January 19, 2013, 5:03 AM.
Dear Jagdeep ji: Yours is a striking idea. I highly appreciate it. If you are an IT guy, you must be having the capacity to gauge the capability of a qualified Sikh in this field also. In that case, why don't you take the initiative. However, the way this idea has been sold on board, sardar Zorawar Singh must take it as a challenge and take just it one step ahead and the Guru will be angsang for this noble cause. S. Sangat Singh ji, a learned and noble soul, has already conveyed his blessings to you. Again, best of luck.