Top to bottom: Greg Ness, VP of marketing, Tony Giampaolo, director of operations
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Wholesale data center operator Vantage Data Centers (www.vantagedatacenters.com) announced on Thursday that it has appointed Greg Ness as vice president of marketing and Tony Giampaolo as director of operations.
According to the announcement, Greg Ness has more than 20 years of enterprise IT and telecom marketing experience. In his new role he will be responsible for the overall direction, strategy and marketing of the company.
Prior to Vantage, Ness was vice president of corporate marketing at Infoblox, where he helped to establish the company as a leader in virtualization and cloud computing. Ness was vice president of marketing at Blue Lane Technologies, and served in various corporate marketing roles at Juniper Networks, Redline Networks, IntruVert Networks and ShoreTel.
Tony Giampaolo has more than 10 years of enterprise data center operations and management experience. As director of operations he will be responsible for facility operations and security.
According to Vantage, Giampaolo has extensive experience in network operations centers, data center management and enterprise systems monitoring and automation.
Giampaolo recently served as senior manager, global data center operations for NetApp, where he was responsible for global data centers and enterprise monitoring program. He has also served in the data center operations role at Autodesk and PeopleSoft.
“The collective experience that Greg and Tony bring from leading marketing and operations teams will be invaluable to Vantage Data Centers as we expand our footprint worldwide,” Jim Trout, Vantage Data Center’s CEO said in a statement. “Greg has a proven track record of successfully marketing highly visible, industry-leading, award-winning companies, while Tony’s experience in operating data centers for some of the most innovative technology companies will provide a competitive edge in the market as well as industry leading reliability and operational transparency. Their collective experience will be instrumental in helping Vantage Data Centers promote and operate what we believe will be the first truly innovative and high efficiency data center model.”
In June 2010, Vantage acquired an 18-acre site in Santa Clara to develop a data center campus.
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