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Mike Manos, the guy who built Microsoft’s server farms, now VP of Service Operations at Nokia

Categories: Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 1:37 PM

Mike Manos may not be a household name, but in the data center world this guy is Bono. He setup Microsoft’s XBOX Live servers, new Azure servers, Hotmail servers, Messenger Servers, basically everything except Bing. He left Microsoft 9 months ago to work for Digital Realty Trust, but in the end he got a job offer from Finland’s largest company, and the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, that he couldn’t refuse. Effective immediately Mike Manos is the Vice President of Service Operations at Nokia. That should give you an idea as to where the company plans to take Ovi, they’re hiring a guy who has built server farms powering some of the largest internet applications today.

The problem is that Ovi services are not competitive with what’s on the market today and the parts of the world where it is successful are due to the fact that the people living in those remote villages have never been on the web and Ovi is quite literally their first experience of the internet. Someone has to pay for that server farm, and it isn’t going to be that farmer in India who saved up 6 months of his salary to buy a $20 Nokia.

[Via: NY Times, Loose Bolts]
[Image Via: Geek in Disguise]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • roberto

    I Hope this will help Nokia gain some more fans here in North America ( Canada ). I just Purchased a Nokia N900 and None of the Canadaian Carriers don’t support 3G on this phone or even there hspa from bell or Telus so i have phone i can only use through WiFi..

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I’ve never, ever, had an iPhone and I’ve been using a Nokia E71 for over a year now.

    What part of my blog post did you not understand?

  • Alin

    Nr 1 in mobile ia americani destepti ca sa-i castige pe cretinii din SUA. Chiar merita investitia? Mai bine ar cauta variante pentru piete emergente, cu potential mult mai mare decat mareata SUA!