Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System

9.1 Biography

Duane E. Zitzner is president of Hewlett-Packard Company s Computing Systems. He is responsible for computer products and systems, including commercial and home PCs, HP NetServers, UNIX servers, storage, and software products such as OpenView. Zitzner also manages HP s investments in computer technology, and ensures proper resource allocation for the entire Computing Systems segment. In addition, he is an elected HP vice president and a member of the Executive Council. Zitzner is based in Cupertino, California.

Zitzner joined HP in 1989 as a section manager in the Roseville Networks Division in California. In 1990, he was promoted to research-and-development manager of the Network Architecture Lab, and in 1991, he was named general manager of the California PC Division, which became the Network Server Division in 1993. He was named general manager of the Networked Systems Business Unit in 1994, was promoted to general manager of the Personal Information Products Group in 1996, and later that year was elected an HP vice president. He continued as vice president and general manager when PSG became a group within the Computer Organization in 1997, and was named president of Computing Systems in 1999.

Before joining HP, Zitzner held various management and technical jobs in software and architecture at IBM. Previous to that, he was a programmer at Univac.

Zitzner holds a bachelor s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and he completed graduate studies in computer science at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. ^[1]

^[1] From the official Hewlett-Packard biography.