2011年4月15日星期五

Apple poaches Microsoft cloud computing guru

Apple is planning to expand its info center infrastructure and has poached a leading Microsoft executive to assist it obtain this purpose, in accordance to reviews.

According to the Info Middle Information internet site, Kevin Timmons - formerly Microsoft's basic supervisor of Datacenter Providers - will get up a leadership place at Apple inside the coming weeks.

Microsoft has confirmed Timmons' departure from your firm, declaring he "has decided to go after other job opportunities and is also no longer working at Microsoft".

Microsoft didn't especially point out what these "career opportunities" entailed. But Dave Ohara, who has worked in info centers at Apple and Microsoft, stated that Timmons was gonna move to Microsoft.

Nevertheless, Ohara stated that Timmons wasn't going to substitute the late Oliver Sanche, who was Apple's top rated information middle executive but died all of a sudden very last year.

However it really is unclear what placement Timmons will consider at Apple in the event the reports are right, speculation about Apple's cloud computing plans is currently in full swing. Very last week Macworld noted that Apple had bought up 12 petabytes of storage from Isilon Programs.

In accordance to an insider at Isilon, Apple plans to use this storage space to handle the video clip downloads of its iTunes customers. This is not the initial time that Apple's ambitions to move into the video-streaming area have been rumoured - previous month a Morgan Stanley analyst claimed the business was doing work on a Sensible Television prototype.

Data Center Understanding also points out that Apple is planning to build more information centers in Europe and also the U.S. Timmons has encounter creating info centers in Chicago and Dublin for Microsoft, reportedly delivering the jobs promptly and on finances.

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