The HP flight towards a more cloud-based future hits turbulence, as AllThingsD reveals senior VP and general manager for Cloud Zorowar "Biri" Singh is leaving the company.
HP confirms the departure with a statement stating "“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."
Group VP for technology and customer relations Roger Levy replaces Singh on an interim basis.
Singh is a 2011 HP hire from the Léo Apotheker days, and his departure reveals dark clouds over HP's hopes for reorganisation. The company is currently forming a “pan-HP organization dedicated to overseeing the company’s full range of HP Converged Cloud offerings,” with Saar Gillai as Converged Cloud senior VP and general manager.
What next for HP and the cloud, then? It will come as no surprise if the company announces a new(er) cloud direction soon, with further promises of innovation. That, or it starts selling off troubled or underperforming assets, such as Autonomy or EDS...
Go HP Head of Cloud Zorowar "Biri" Singh Departs (AllThingsD)
