Scott Farrand - Profile

Scott Farrand

Scott Farrand is the vice president of Enterprise Servers and Storage (ESS) Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem (ISB). He and his team are focused on the Platform Infrastructure business including BladeSystem hardware infrastructure, platform manageability, virtualization and strategic software partnerships. Scott’s team drives internal and external partnerships, and is responsible for delivering BladeSystem HW virtualization platform support for ProLiant and BladeSystem, as well as manageability value for ProLiant and BladeSystem.

Scott formerly served as vice president of Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS) Software and led the Platform and Business Enablement teams.

Scott joined Hewlett Packard by way of acquisition of RLX Technologies in October 2005. Prior to working at RLX Technologies, he worked at Alta Vista Company, where he helped port the infrastructure for the search engine Web software from C/C++ on expensive compute infrastructure to Linux industry-standard x86 servers.

Prior to Alta Vista, Scott was at Compaq Computer Corporation for 12 years where he founded and developed Compaq's first systems management products. Scott earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois. He holds 10 U.S. patents in systems management.