This blog will discuss consolidated event and performance management, server virtualization, and other infrastructure management isses that IT Operations professionals face. The opinions expressed in each blog post are those of the individuals writing. They do *not* represent an official HP point of view.
Here are some short bios of each of the main contributors:
Jon Haworth 
Jon is a Product Marketing Manager for the HP Software Operations Center portfolio of products. He has 25 years experience working for HP across a variety of roles including consulting, pre-sales and marketing. Jon has designed and implemented large-scale infrastructure management solutions for a number of Fortune 1000 enterprises. Jon is an early adopter and continued advocate for ITIL having gained his ITIL V2 Service Management certification in 1996.
Peter Spielvogel 
Peter is a Product Marketing Manager for the HP Software Operations Center portfolio of products. He has helped companies in financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, and publishing improve their competitiveness, generate productivity improvements, and boost their bottom line. Over the past 20 years Peter has held marketing, sales, product management, and software development positions at Ipedo, Applied Materials, Solomon Brothers, Prudential Securities, and several startups.
Sonja Hickey 
Sonja is a Product Marketing Manager for the HP Software Operations Center portfolio of products. She has 19 years of product marketing, product management, engineering, and consulting experience with privately-held, start-up, and Fortune 500 companies. Sonja has been responsible for positioning, messaging, strategy, and go-to-market programs for both consumer and B2B product lines. Companies that she has worked for include InstallShield, Loudcloud, Sun Microsystems, and AT&T.
Dennis Corning 
For the past year Dennis has led the product and solutions marketing efforts for HP Operations Center (formerly OpenView Operations). In this role he is responsible for positioning, messaging, strategy, enablement, and go-to-market programs. Previously, Dennis led product marketing for BAC. Prior to joining HP he held various marketing, sales, business development and alliances roles with Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP), Concord Communications (acquired by CA), Precise Software (acquired by Veritas Software) and BMC Software.