Apple Hires Away Yahoo Data Center Chief

Web Host Industry Review (Oct 23 2011) Cloud Computing

1. According to reports published over the weekend, including an initial report from GigaOm, tech giant Apple (www.apple.com) has hired away the head of data center operations at Yahoo, (www.yahoo.com) a company with much more history in the hosting space. GigaOm’s Stacy Higginbotham reported on Saturday that Scott Noteboom, previously vice president of data center engineering and operations at Yahoo, is now a “distinguished gentleman” at Apple, according to his LinkedIn bio. The move comes during a year of considerable activity in the data center space for Apple. It included the construction of the company’s $1 billion, 500,000 square-foot facility in Maiden, North Carolina, as well as the introduction of the company’s iCloud file storage cloud. (Read Full Article)

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