DataBank has announced that Joe Minarik is joining the Dallas provider of colocation and managed cloud services as COO, according to a news release.
Minarik "consolidated all operational functions under his leadership, including data center and colocation operations, engineering, construction, managed services, network and security, and IT operations," the release said.
Minarik, who will report to CEO Raul Martynek, "is a pioneer in the cloud and data center community having joined Amazon in 2005, a year before the public launch of AWS," according to the release. During his tenure, Minarik "led the development of the company's underlying data center and network infrastructure." His most recent role was as Global Head of Data Center Supply.
"Joe Minarik possesses the perfect blend of operational experience and pioneering vision to help DataBank realize its goal of becoming the dominant edge infrastructure platform in the country," said Martynek in the release. "Consolidating our data center, colocation, managed services, network, and software development efforts under Joe's leadership will enable DataBank to deliver a transformative, software-driven, edge infrastructure experience for our customers."
"DataBank understands the agile infrastructure experience buyers are seeking, has the right vision of where the edge is going, and the resources to execute on it," said Minarik in the release. "From facility footprint to software enablement, they have all the pieces in place and I'm looking forward to bringing it all together to create something that leads the industry into the future."
