As director of virtualization, HP, Nick van der Zweep’s work has resulted in essential solutions for enterprise customers faced with business-critical IT needs. Due to van der Zweep’s knowledge of the virtualization market through his work on HP’s first-in-class server virtualization technologies, van der Zweep spearheads HP’s utility computing initiatives and all virtualization efforts for HP’s Technology Solutions Group.
Van der Zweep draws on his strong technical, sales and marketing experience to build the business case for usage-based pricing models, and in September 1999, introduced Instant Capacity on Demand, a first-in-class solution. Van der Zweep subsequently introduced several related groundbreaking initiatives, including HP’s Pay-Per-Use utility pricing program in July 2001 and HP’s Temporary Instant Capacity on Demand in August 2002. More recently, Van Zweep has collaborated within HP on new offerings for HP enterprise customers. HP Flexible Computing Services, a true public utility offering that enables multiple customers to “plug in” to HP’s public computing assets on a per hour basis was introduced in late 2005.
From 1998-2001, van der Zweep fostered HP’s IT Consolidation program from its inception to a business generating more than half-a-billion dollars annually. Today, it remains the leading strategic and revenue-generating solution for HP’s Enterprise Systems Group.
During his 18 years of IT experience, van der Zweep has focused on data center optimization and on making IT a strategic differentiator for companies. Prior to HP, van der Zweep spent 10 years working as an IT executive and Data Center Manager for the Great-West Life Assurance Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Van der Zweep has a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba in Canada.
