Jamie Erbes

Director, Services Research Lab
HP Labs, Palo Alto

Biography

Jamie joined HP’s Office of Strategy and Technology in 2008 as the Chief Technology Officer for Software & Solutions where she supported the company-wide software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO), HP’s IT management software, and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the CME industry. In this role she helped create a forward-looking vision for cloud services and their impact on Enterprise IT management.

Prior to that, she served as the CTO of the EDS infrastructure portfolio where she produced the strategic, technical roadmaps to bring the LoudCloud MSP business and Opsware technology into the EDS business. Additionally, she helped launch a new service line focused on global automation and enabling technologies in support of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management processes. Prior to joining EDS, she held numerous leadership roles at LoudCloud, Inc. where she led the first releases of Opsware and other web-hosting automation solutions. Jamie began her career in the telecom industry leading OSS development teams at Wiltel, WorldCom and @Home. She earned her computer science degree at East Central University in Oklahoma.