Acquiring Yahoo, one employee at a time: Microsoft has recruited Kevin Timmons, former lead of Yahoo’s data center team, to head up its Data Center Services organization. Timmons was once director of Operations at GeoCities and worked his way up to VP of Operations at Yahoo, where he led the build-out of the company’s data centers and infrastructure.
This move comes shortly after Microsoft data center exec Michael Manos left Redmond to fill a new position at Digital Realty Trust, and only two months after the company hired another Yahoo executive – Dayne Sampson – for a key position at Microsoft Global Foundation Services (which Data Center Services is a part of).
(See the GFS blog post for more – hat tip to Data Center Knowledge for the heads up).
If you can’t buy the company…buy the employees…
I like the first sentence of the article!
me too
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the content will be as fresh as anything else you can imagine:)
MSFT has been making some interesting and strategic poaching hires. Brad Becker from Adobe, now this one. Who’s next?
BTW, you are indeed on a wicked roll, Robin, with all of your postings. Great work. ;-p
People are exiting Yahoo at a pretty fast rate: they know when a ship is slowly sinking.
I agree Brad Becker was an awesome switch and I can’t think of a better boss to work for since.
Life is rainbows and sunshine now that he’s over at Microsoft
hehee.
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Scott Barnes / Microsoft.