Cloud Computing: Google can’t be too happy about Snapchat’s latest hire
October 20, 2016
Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Julie Bort.
Snap, the company that makes the popular app Snapchat, just hired away Jerry Hunter from Amazon Web Services, Snap has confirmed to Business Insider. At Amazon he was responsible for Amazon’s data centers globally. At Snap he will be the VP of engineering, reporting to Snap engineering chief Tim Sehn, reports The Information’s Tom Dotan, who first reported the news.
Before Amazon, Hunter was running global data centers for another huge tech company. He was the VP of IT for Sun Microsystems which, before it got bought by Oracle, was also a pioneer in cloud computing (although the world didn’t call it that back in the day). The interesting thing about hiring a data center expert is that Snap doesn’t run it’s own data centers. It is, instead, a marque customer for Google’s cloud, its App Engine service…
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