Paul Perez, who until recently was part of the leadership team for the Cisco server products, technologies bring enterprise data center Dell, Dell said Monday.In the same announcement, the company also said Rory Reed, former CEO of chipmaker AMD, Dell has joined as COO and president of commercial sales worldwide. Read left AMD last year, its role taken over by then leader of the operation of the business Lisa Su.
At Cisco, Perez was both vice president and general manager for the group responsible for the line of Unified Computing System and Business Server group data center CTO of Silicon Valley IT giant. Oversaw technical strategy for the Cisco converged infrastructure, virtualization and private cloud automation.
While Pérez had been at Cisco for the last three and a half years, is a man of HP long. He spent nearly 30 years working for the legendary Silicon Valley based in Palo Alto, since the 80s, as a designer working on PA-RISC chip architecture (used in Itanium processors now missing) and as Chief Technologist HP StorageWorks firs and then to the server and software industry standards.
As a group CTO of Dell enterprise solutions, Pérez will help guide the company's leading long-term strategy of the company. Read it and will report to the commercial director of the company Marius Haas.
Read served as CEO of AMD for more than three years before announcing his resignation in October 2014. It 'was President and Chief Operating Officer of Lenovo for five years before joining AMD. Before that, he spent over 20 years working for IBM.Dell was number three server vendors in the world by revenue in 2014, according to IDC. HP was the first, and IBM was the second. Cisco is fourth with Dell.
