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Lin Nease is the Director of Emerging Technologies for the ProCurve Business. In this role, he is responsible for leading several strategy-setting activities, most notably ProCurve's new data center endeavor.

As a CTO in HP's server business, Nease was a principal architect of HP's next-generation data center program, which resulted both in several new infrastructure hardware products as well as the aggregation of HP's data center management software as we know it today (which includes the recent addition of Opsware). In his 20 years with HP, he has been the systems architect on numerous successful commercial products, including the industry's first blade solution (HP's PowerBar), the Superdome platform, clustering technologies, and HP's first multi-processing low-end & midrange Unix systems.

Nease received his BS in Computer Science at Arizona State University in 1986 and his MBA from California State University Sacramento in 1994. He also served as a computer operator in the United States Air Force.