HP goes after enterprise server, storage growth in South Pacific markets

Peter Dinham
Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:57

IT Industry - Deals

Hewlett Packard has appointed a new man to drive its sales effort for enterprise servers and storage systems in the South Pacific region.
 

HP has given the job of driving market growth to Paul Robson in his new role as the director of enterprise servers and storage (ESS) in the South Pacific, replacing Stephen Bovis who has moved to the role of vice President and general manager of industry standard Servers for HP in Asia Pacific and Japan.
 
Robson was most recently director of the Solutions Partners Organisation, part of the Personal Solutions Group, with responsibility for HP’s local channel network of 3,500 business partners and resellers.   He has been with for more than 10 years.

According to Robson, “the ESS portfolio is a powerful growth engine in our adaptive infrastructure strategy and represents some exciting new opportunities.”

In his new role, Robson says he will focus on driving market growth and leadership across the full portfolio, including industry standard servers and blades, business critical servers and HP StorageWorks.

Robson will reports directly to Paul Brandling, vice president and managing director of HP South Pacific and Tony Parkinson, who heads up HP’s ESS business in Asia Pacific and Japan.