15 Apr 2011
Apple has added a new executive to its fold, and he's coming to the company from a familliar foe.
Data Center Knowledge is reporting that Apple has hired Kevin Timmons, a former general manager for datacentre services at Microsoft. The position Timmons will be taking at Apple is not yet known, but speculation is that a cloud computing service could be the aim.
The blog notes that Timmons has a reputation for working with large-scale datacentres and internet services. Additionally, Apple is said to be looking to bring in people for work on a datacentre in North Carolina to run a cloud computing service.
Could this be another move towards the reported iTunes cloud service? Reports have indicated that Apple is looking to develop a service to host and stream media files, and it would appear that Timmons's expertise would play right into such a plan.
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