HP has announced a company restructure designed to make the company more efficient which includes merging its Global Accounts Sales organization with the new HP Enterprise Group which looks after enterprise, servers, storage, networking and technology services (ESSN).

ESSN is heavily involved in the data center industry, especially with the making of HP’s POD and data center architectures.

The new team will be led by David Donatelli, while it is not yet clear what position HP’s former Exeutive VP of Global Sales Jan Zadak will take.

Zadak was previously responsible for HP’s multi-billion dollar enterprise business and joined HP in 2002 as a result of its acquisition of Compac Computer. He has focussed heavily on the Instant-on Enterprise.

Donatelli, on the other hand, has been behind HP’s Converged Infrastructure strategy for next-generation data centers. Before he joined HP he spent 22 years at EMC where he once served as president of its storage division.

HP President and CEO Meg Whitman, who took on her own position following a stint at eBay and the resignation of Leo Apotheker resigned last year, said the move will help speed decision making in the company and improve productivity.

Apotheker spent only 10 months at the company before the board decided they were better without him after the C-Level exec made a number of controversial business decisions.

He was hired following the resignation of Mark Hurd, who now works as co-President and member of the board at Oracle alongside friend Larry Ellison.

Since Whitman joined HP, the industry has been waiting to see what changes would be made amongst departments and management. Many industry onlookers said HP required more leadership and clearer guidance to keep investors onside.

For the company as a whole, the even bigger news released today  was the merging of HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) and its Personal Systems Group into the Printing and Personal Systems Group led by Todd Bradley.

The Personal Systems Group is now thought to be worth about US$40billion in revenue for HP.

HP said that IPG executive VP Vyomesh Joshi is retiring after 31 years with the company.