The switch was noted via his LinkedIn account, wherein he lists his job profile as a “distinguished gentleman” at Apple as of this month. His ‘past’ now includes VP of data center engineering and operations at Yahoo.
Noteboom can be an asset to Apple, as most of his history has seen him as working in data centers. He has worked with a number of companies involved in operating facilities on a service provider standpoint. At Yahoo even, as mentioned earlier, he joined in 2005, and has been an asset for the company by holding an important position as the 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.
Talking about his role prior to Yahoo, from 2000 to 2005, Noteboom was senior director of data center operations at AboveNet (www.above.net). At that time, the company was the second-largest data center co-location footprint in the world.
His work profile at Yahoo has seen him being involved in Yahoo’s chicken coop data centers and has even been quite useful in helping the expansion of Yahoo’s Internet portal in scale. The strange was that recently, at a data center conference, his bio read as:
Scott Noteboom serves as Yahoo!’s Head of Global Data Center Infrastructure. Since joining Yahoo! in 2005, he has served as chief design architect and a founder of the company’s data center self construct / operate initiatives. He also managed over 10x growth of the companies data center / compute operating footprint, leading teams that installed and support multi hundred thousand hosts. Scott’s duties include managing all aspects of the data center lifecycle– from design, construction, operations, to de-commissions.
However, with these efforts of Apple, it can be known that the Tech giant has been ramping up its consumer cloud. Earlier this month, Apple had spent up to $1 billion on a North Carolina data center. Moreover, the company had even hired a number of executives, especially a few from its rival companies such as Microsoft’s Kevin Timmons. Apple has its focus set on including big-name data center operators.