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100 new jobs for Galway - Taoiseach
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, speaks with Martin Murphy, Managing Director of HP Ireland and John Hinshaw Executive Vice President of Technology & Operations for Hewlett Packard at the company's headquarters office in Palo Alto, California
Taoiseach Enda Kenny today welcomed the announcement that HP Ireland will create 100 jobs at its new state-of-the-art facility in Ballybrit, Galway. The facility is currently under construction and due to be completed next year.
This investment in Galway is part of the company’s plans to expand the global reach of the HP Helion portfolio of cloud products and services. The HP Cloud Research and Development (R&D) team in Galway played a large role in delivering HP’s public cloud—one of the largest OpenStack-based public clouds in the world.
As part of this investment, HP is adding approximately 100 high-tech jobs to its cloud R&D team in Galway.
The new positions will assist HP’s enterprise customers with cloud planning, implementation and operational needs. Individuals recruited for these roles also will also become active members of the OpenStack community, contributing design blueprints, new code, bug fixes and code reviews. They also will engage quickly with HP enterprise customers seeking to deploy OpenStack clouds.
On a visit to HP’s global headquarters in Palo Alto, California the Taoiseach said:
Today’s announcement that HP is creating 100 additional jobs in Galway is a boost for Ireland and for the ICT sector in particular. HP has consistently invested in and believed in Ireland over the past forty years. Today, the company is one of Ireland’s most valued investors and one of our foremost creators of highly skilled R&D jobs. ICT is a sector which we have specifically targeted as part of our Action Plan for Jobs and we have put in place measures to support jobs growth in this area. As a government, we are determined to keep making the changes to support further growth in the coming years.