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Former Yahoo vice president,control Microsoft’s Data Services

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 19:40
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The hiring is part of Microsoft’s plan to construct a cloud computing network complete with efficient data centers. Microsoft has acquired another all-star executive from one of its rivals. This time it’s former Yahoo vice president of operations Kevin Timmons, who will now take control of Microsoft’s Data Service organization within the company’s wider Global Foundation Services (GFS) division. Given that efficiency usually means wider profit margins, it’s understandable that Microsoft would want to lower its own PUE by hiring Timmons, who Microsoft general manager of infrastructure services Arne Josefsberg credited for placing great importance on the metric. Some say that the PUE could represent the next great battle front between Microsoft and search engine powerhouse Google.

Microsoft is in the middle of constructing data centers across the globe. It’s trying to increase its online service delivery capability, and increasing the efficiency of its data centers in San Antonio, Chicago, and even Dublin is considered critical towards this end. The PUE metric is used to measure energy efficiency it divides the total power used by a data center by the power consumed by its IT infrastructure. The lower the number, the better.

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