David Jursik Bio
David Jursik is the Worldwide Vice President of Sales responsible
for IBM's high-performance computing solutions. The new Deep Computing organization
brings together all of IBM's server, storage and systems management solutions
to address the comprehensive needs of the global technical computing marketplace
in government, higher education, life sciences, industry, business
intelligence and digital media. These solutions encompass 32-bit
and 64-bit servers, industry-leading disk and tape storage management, high-performance
parallel file system software, and common cluster-systems management tools
to integrate the operation of IBM's Intel, AMD and Power-based servers. In
addition, the Deep Computing OnDemand solution is a new initiative to host
large computational jobs on a just-in-time basis, ushering in true OnDemand
capacity for high-performance computing requirements.
Jursik previously had worldwide sales responsibility for IBM's Linux cluster
solutions. These solutions include IBM's Intel- and AMD-based servers,
systems-management software, and integration services. The government, academic,
life sciences, automotive, electronics, petroleum exploration and production,
and financial-services sectors are all considered key growth segments for
Linux clusters. These high-performance computing solutions have proven to
be an effective way of lowering the price performance of running quantitative
workloads and improving the research and development processes in each of
the referenced industries. In addition, Linux clusters have begun to expand
into the new application areas of general-purpose compute farms, Web-serving
environments, business intelligence and digital media.
Prior to this Jursik was the vice president responsible for e-business solutions
sales in the western third of the United States. These solutions included
the full suite of products and services required to implement enterprise
resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply-chain and
e-procurement applications.
Jursik has more than 25 years of related IT and industry sales experience
spanning industry, distribution, financial services and government sectors
in both commercial and technical applications sales capacities.
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