Erik Vogel – Connect Converge

Erik Vogel

Global vice president, customer experience, HPE GreenLake
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Erik Vogel has spent his career helping clients succeed through relationship-focused engagements and by developing innovative and industry-leading approaches and methods. He strives to help clients realize successful business outcomes for their critical IT transformations. His proven track record has been driven by his in-depth understanding of his customers and domain expertise across multiple areas of IT.

As the global leader of HPE’s Hybrid IT Center of Excellence, Erik is responsible for following industry trends, understanding clients’ needs, identifying areas of opportunity, and investing to create innovative solutions. He is also responsible for enabling delivery teams and partners to scale solutions.

Erik’s teams have developed solutions aimed at modernizing legacy enterprise applications, migrating to cloud, developing private clouds, and implementing container solutions. His teams are developing software tools for cloud migrations that integrate custom and partner-based solutions. Erik also created the Hybrid IT Framework, which helps clients approach their transformations holistically while addressing the inhibitors to success.

Erik frequently presents at industry events on defining, implementing, and managing technology solutions to accelerate business objectives. He holds a BME degree from Villanova University, an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh. Erik is a member of the Utah Bar and holds CPIM and PMP certifications.

Five steps to transform to on-premises cloud services

Erik VogelSeptember 23, 20200310 views

Not all applications can be run in the public cloud. Here's how to get the cloud to come to you. By now, the benefits of the cloud are well known: reduced costs, improved scalability, increased efficiency, and more agility. But not all enterprise applications, workloads, and data are suited for it. Compliance and security issues prevent moving some to the public cloud, while complex dependencies among applications won't allow others to run there. In some cases, it is financially unfeasible or impractical to move them.

5 questions you need to ask yourself about hybrid cloud

Erik VogelDecember 10, 20190260 views

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to manage a hybrid infrastructure that includes multiple clouds. Here’s how to reduce cloud sprawl and costs while increasing benefits to your business.