Distinguished gentleman Noteboom appears to have added a few contacts since the story broke
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — 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.
Most of Noteboom’s history in operating data centers appears to be with companies involved in operating facilites on a service provider standpoint.
The GigaOm report quotes a bio from the 7×24 Exchange conference, which described Noteboom as head of Yahoo’s global data center infrastructure. He joined the company in 2005, and has served as chief design architect and founder of the company’s data center self construct and operate initiatives, managing the ten-fold growth of the company’s data center and compute footprint.
Prior to his role at Yahoo, Noteboom was senior director of data center operations at AboveNet (www.above.net), from 2000 to 2005, at the time the second-largest data center colocation footprint in the world, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The hire would seem to validate the impression that there is a growing appetite for data center expertise at Apple, a company better known for its consumer electronics activity.
The company reportedly hired away Microsoft data center head Kevin Timmons in April of this year, though last week, Data Center Knowledge reported that Timmons had joined CyrusOne as CTO, with not much indication of any time spent at Apple.
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