Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple

GFSInsider

Posted April 14th, 2011

Timmons departure is not really surprise to those on the inside. Most of the things that he took credit for can be directly attributed to the team of Manos and Costello. He knew how to manage a budget, hire Yahoo people into key roles, but someone who thought out of the box he was not. The real question is who will replace him?

[...] of datacenter services at Microsoft, has left the company to pursue other career opportunities. And according to Data Center Knowledge, Timmons is headed to Apple, but his position and responsibilities not known. [...]

[...] Center Knowledge reports Kevin Timmons, Microsoft’s former high-ranked exec in charge of their worldwide data center [...]

[...] The general manager of Microsoft’s datacenter operations has left, apparently to help Apple expand its cloud infrastructure, according to a report today in Data Center Knowledge. [...]

[...] Data Center Knowledge reports that Timmons was incredibly efficient at building scalable data center solutions on a budget, saving Microsoft $250 million in an initially estimated 500 million dollar project as Microsoft constructed a new data facility in Chicago (and later Dublin) in 2009. At Microsoft, Timmons oversaw the deployment of massive new data centers in Dublin and Chicago shortly after his arrival in mid-2009, but then moved to streamline the company’s data center design and cost structure. Timmons said his goal is for Microsoft’s data center network to be “incredibly scalable at awesome cost effectiveness,” and said his team was on target to slash data center costs by 50 percent. [...]

[...] center experts on the planet, and the company did its recruiting in Redmond. Data Center Knowledge reported that Apple recruited one Kevin Timmons, former general manager of Datacenter Services from [...]

[...] helped build the infrastructure for Microsoft’s global cloud computing network, according to Data Center Knowledge. It is not yet known Timmons’ position or responsibilities with Apple. The report of his [...]

DCSer

Posted April 15th, 2011

SInce Timmons only PM’ed projects developed and started by others while simultaneously chasing a shocking number of senior folks out the door or into other orgs, the only questions remaining are “What is Apple thinking?” and “Can MSFT restore its once prominent, innovative, and energetic data center program to its former glory?”

[...] who helped build a infrastructure for Microsoft’s tellurian cloud computing network, according to Data Center Knowledge. It is not nonetheless famous Timmons’ position or responsibilities with Apple. The news of his [...]

[...] less than two years with the company after a decade with GeoCities/Yahoo. According to GreenM3 and Data Center Knowledge, Timmons headed up Microsoft’s data center group and may have even bigger shoes to fill at [...]

[...] diario digital especializado, Datacenter knowledge, ha publicado que algunas fuentes de la industria sitúan a Timmons trabajando en Apple en un futuro [...]

[...] to a Data Center Knowledge website, Kevin Timmons, formerly Microsoft’s ubiquitous manager of Datacenter Services, will [...]

[...] by admin on April 18, 2011 Tweet Looking to expand its presence in the cloud, Apple has reportedly hired Kevin Timmons, the former head of Data Center Services at Microsoft, whose departure from the company was confirmed to Data Center Knowledge. [...]

[...] Apple has a new and not nonetheless operational 500,000 square-foot information centre in North Carolina. This place is 5 times incomparable than a company’s stream information core in Newark, Calif. “Apple is widely reputed to be readying a iDataCenter to energy a cloud-based “storage locker” that can residence music, video and other media for iTunes users,” wrote Data Center Knowledge. [...]

[...] Apple has a new and not yet operational 500,000 square-foot data centre in North Carolina. This place is five times larger than the company’s current data center in Newark, Calif. “Apple is widely presumed to be readying its iDataCenter to power a cloud-based “storage locker” that can house music, video and other media for iTunes users,” wrote Data Center Knowledge. [...]

[...] infrastructure. That’s why Jobs highlighted the iDataCenter in his keynote and why Apple recently hired noted cloud data center expert Kevin Timmons from Microsoft. When you’re selling as many different types of devices as Apple does, the real [...]

[...] led the data center team at Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services, had left Microsoft and was headed to Apple. Six months later, it turns out that Timmons has instead joined  CyrusOne as the colo provider’s [...]

[...] on the rumor front, Business Insider is reporting thatKevin Timmons— Microsoft’s former datacenter services general manager who joined Appleto head up its datacenter efforts back in April 2011— has left Apple to join datacenter [...]

[...] on the rumor front, Business Insider is reporting that Kevin Timmons — Microsoft’s former datacenter services general manager who joined Apple to head up its datacenter efforts back in April 2011 — has left Apple to join datacenter [...]