Chris Yetman
Chief Operating Officer
As chief operating officer at Vantage Data Centers, Chris Yetman leads operations, security, construction, design, engineering and IT.
With more than 30 years of experience, Yetman approaches strategy and decision-making from the customers’ viewpoint. In partnership with Vantage’s leadership team, he develops the company’s strategy and evangelizes it throughout the organization. Yetman has been instrumental in accelerating Vantage’s growth from a regional data center provider in the United States to a fast-growing global operator.
Yetman received his Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Northeastern University.
As chief operating officer at Vantage Data Centers, Chris Yetman leads operations, security, construction, design, engineering and IT.
With more than 30 years of experience, Yetman approaches strategy and decision-making from the customers’ viewpoint. In partnership with Vantage’s leadership team, he develops the company’s strategy and evangelizes it throughout the organization. Yetman has been instrumental in accelerating Vantage’s growth from a regional data center provider in the United States to a fast-growing global operator.
Yetman received his Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Northeastern University.
How AI is Reshaping the Modern Data Center
Chris Yetman,
September 28, 2023
8 min read
Few new technologies throughout history have captured the hearts, minds and imaginations of technology companies, pundits and investors as much as artificial intelligence, or AI,...
If Your Data Center Isn’t Testing Redundancy, It Isn’t Redundant
Chris Yetman,
June 12, 2017
6 min read
The Best Way to Ensure Consistency Redundancy, at its core, is simple: It’s a design concept in which, for any component, you build more than...
Pulling the plug: Why We Chose to Black out an Entire Campus—and How It Went
Chris Yetman,
May 17, 2017
4 min read
In a data center, nothing is more important to business continuity than redundancy At Vantage, testing redundancy is non-negotiable. In fact, we’re never not doing...
Keeping the Data Center Cool in the Hot September Sun
Chris Yetman,
September 26, 2016
3 min read
It is almost a statement of the obvious that global temperatures are rising and that hotter-than-average summers are the new norm. Here in Silicon Valley...
Harmail Chatha and Programming Efficiency
Chris Yetman,
May 9, 2016
2 min read
While crafting our recent ebook about the evolution and future of high density in the data center (“What High Density Means Today”), we were fortunate...
Talking Open Space with Cole Crawford
Chris Yetman,
May 9, 2016
2 min read
When we got the opportunity to talk to Vapor IO Founder and CEO Cole Crawford during our interviews for the high-density ebook “What High Density...
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