David Donatelli EVP Converged Infrastructure, Oracle

Oracle Corp. has hired technology industry veteran and hardware infrastructure expert David Donatelli as EVP, converged infrastructure.

Reporting to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, he will be responsible for Oracle infrastructure offerings including the company’s engineered systems, server, storage, networking and tape products. He will also help the company respond to customer demand for Oracle’s hardware solutions that operate in a hybrid cloud environment.

“David joins Oracle at a pivotal time, when we are the only major hardware company in the industry experiencing growth,” said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “I can think of no one more qualified to continue to accelerate our growth, differentiate our offerings, and further cement the leadership of Oracle’s global hardware business.”

Most recently, Donatelli served as EVP and GM of the enterprise group at HP. In that role, he led the group responsible for the enterprise hardware business, which includes storage, server, networking and converged infrastructure solutions. Hiss team includes business critical systems, industry standard servers, infrastructure software, blades and ProCurve networking. This portfolio provides the foundation for HP’s converged infrastructure. Prior to joining HP, he spent 22 years at EMC where he held a variety of management, operations, sales and marketing positions. In his last role he was president of the EMC storage division, where he oversaw the development of all of EMC’s storage platforms and the development of EMC’s information management sSoftware and infrastructure software product offerings, global supply chain and worldwide manufacturing.

He is a graduate of Boston College and received an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

“Joining Oracle was an easy decision,” said Donatelli. “In an industry where our hardware competitors are in chaos, Oracle stands alone with our strategy to engineer all layers of the software and hardware stack to work together seamlessly whether on premise or in the Oracle Cloud. No one else in the industry can do this and I’m excited to be a part of it.”