Yahoo! has is investing heavily in cloud computing guru Raymie Stata, who has recently become the CTO of Yahoo. Stata was formerly Yahoo!’s chief architect, playing an instrumental role in the company’s move to a common distributed infrastructure. “As Chief Architect, Raymie led transformative efforts to rewire Yahoo!, moving from a set of vertical silos to a horizontal platform infrastructure,” the company said in a blog post.
“With his leadership, technical Yahoo’s have focused on core challenges like creating a stable, agile development environment, extracting value from masses of unstructured data, developing scalable global experiences, and architecting a cloud to serve as the foundation for every click across our network.”
