Executive Suite: Amdahl Creates New Business Group To Meet Customer's Growing IT Infrastructure Needs - Company Operations

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Nov 23, 1998

Amdahl Corporation Tuesday announced the creation of the Amdahl Global Solutions (Amdahl/GS) group, a service-based organization developed to meet the growing IT challenges of global enterprises. Amdahl has appointed Alan Bell as Group President of Amdahl/GS, reporting directly to David B. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdahl Corporation. Under Mr. Bell's leadership, Amdahl/GS will deploy and manage, individually tailored IT infrastructures for the world's largest users of enterprise-wide computing. The market need is apparent according to InformationWeek (1): "'Faraway' events that wouldn't have commanded the attention of (local) IT executives a few years ago are preoccupying them in today's global networked economy." Now Amdahl/GS customers can leverage a global infrastructure to enhance the availability, scalability, and enterprise-wide integration of their IT investments to more rapidly meet their business goals.

"Alan Bell brings wide experience of the global marketplace and our customer's requirements that are vital to our success," said David B. Wright, President and CEO, Amdahl Corporation. "He has extensive industry knowledge matched with a commitment towards attaining company goals that will help him to take Amdahl/GS to a leadership position in the supply of global services to meet our customers' evolving IT infrastructure needs."

Alan Bell began his career with Amdahl in 1977. Since then, Mr. Bell has held several senior-level management positions including: Managing Director of Amdahl Italia and Deputy General Manager of Amdahl Deutschland. In addition, Mr. Bell has retained a variety of executive level positions including: Vice President, Marketing for Europe, Africa and the Middle East; Vice President, Marketing, Worldwide Field Operations; Vice President and General Manager, European Operations; Vice President and General Manager, International Operations; and, most recently, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations.

Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS, Windows NT, and UNIX operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries.

(1) Dalton, Gregory. "Small World." InformationWeek Online Aug. 10, 1998.