Ewald Comhaire,
Director, global CTO, Technology Services Consulting, HP Enterprise Business |
Ewald Comhaire is the global CTO and Chief Architect for HP?s Technology Services Consulting business. Until recently he managed HP?s infrastructure consulting and data center transformation portfolio at worldwide level for HP Services and was responsible for all consulting and system integration services in the areas of cloud computing, IT shared services, consolidation, data center and IT transformation, migration, open source, scale out infrastructure, virtualization, business continuity and availability, data base infrastructure, infrastructure management and automation. As part of his global assignment, Ewald was based in Palo Alto, California at the HP headquarters in the United States for almost 7 years, but returned to Europe in 2007.
Ewald joined HP almost 25 years ago as a systems engineer for instrumentation, logic analyzers and microprocessor development environments.
He also managed the IT Solutions segment in Western Europe and has been a principal consultant for the Financial Industries. Over the years, he has provided customers and the HP sales force with cost effective solutions, business and information strategy consultancy on technology Infrastructure.
During his career, Ewald worked with HP?s R&D organizations as a consultant and architect on the HP Intel Itanium program, the 5 nines:5 minutes continuous availability program and HP?s utility data center. Comhaire is specialized in defining distributed, service oriented computer architectures, microprocessor architecture design, IT architectures and strategies. He has lead many international, large IT and data center consolidation and simplification projects as well as developments of Internet based client/server architectures using technologies such as Java/.Net, XML/Web Services and DCE.
Ewald has a master?s degree in computer science and engineering from Brussels' University, where he specialized in compiler technology and design. He also has an engineering degree in electronics with specialization in microprocessor architecture and design. |
