Data Center shortage is not Power, Cooling, or Network, but executives - Apple hires Microsoft's Data Center GM

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 13 2011)

...ive moves from one company to another. News that a bunch of us have been discussing is Apple hiring Kevin Timmons (GM of Microsoft's data center services group). Don't expect any press releases from Apple or Micr......s are heavily recruited like Facebook recently hired a senior mechanical engineer from Equinix and Google's Daniel Costello who also came from Microsoft. Mike Manos is proud of his renegade ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Starts Building Iowa Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 10 2011) Construction

...ed back in the summer of 2008, when enthusiasm for new data centers in Iowa was high in the wake of Google’s announcement of a new facility in Council Bluffs. Last month Microsoft received final approval... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Kevin Timmons   Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft copies Yahoo!’s chicken coop with tractor shed.

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 4 2011) Hydro

...ge in ways that have never been seen before in the industry. The following blog post is written by Kevin Timmons, ex-Yahoo data center executive. When Phase 1 opens in Quincy it will be located adjacent to our ex......g green data centers for others. KC has provided data center operations and acquisition services to Google, as well energy and renewable energy options. KC led data center strategy, procuring all ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft ‘All In’ on Container-Powered Cloud

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 4 2010) Cloud Computing

...brought a data center with him: one of the next-generation containers that Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons described yesterday in a presentation in New York. The prototype (seen above) is the latest in a se......torage and networking infrastructure all be built out by four or five companies, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, the cloud guys? Will we buy every server computer and every piece of storage in the world? No ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft’s Timmons: ‘Challenge Everything’

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Power and Cooling

...for their water hookups. “Challenge everything you know about a traditional data center,” said Kevin Timmons, who heads Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services, in describing the company’s approach to building......e Efficiency (PUE) of 1.06 in testing. That would rank among the lowest scores reported, below even Google’s published PUEs, which average between 1.1 and 1.2 for most of its facilities. Running servers at ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons