Joseph George

Director of Big Data Servers and Solutions at HP, and is responsible for driving a broad range cloud storage solutions across the HP Server portfolio, including open source solutions with OpenStack, Ceph, Hadoop and other projects.  Prior to coming to HP, Joseph held key strategy, product management, evangelism, and technical leadership roles at companies like Dell, BMC Software, and Halliburton, and has served on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors.  Resultantly, Joseph has spent almost 20 years in driving emerging technology solutions in the areas of virtualization, cloud, big data, commercial and open source software, and scale out computing.  Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, as well as a master’s in business administration (MBA), both from the University of Houston. He’s a tried and true Texan, and currently resides in Houston with his wife and two children.  You can catch Joseph’s thoughts and opinions regularly at the JBGeorge Tech Blog (www.jbgeorge.net) and he can often be found talking tech on Twitter (@jbgeorge).