Data will be the new currency
Data centre hosting has changed a lot over the years,
moving from niche activity to mainstream trend. Today, any
IT leader should know the value of colocation and shared
data centre processing, storage and communications and
the economies of scale, reduced administration burden and
extra expertise that are engendered. But, even today, data
centre hosts are moving towards a new paradigm.
One way the data centre hosting business is adapting is
through sheer size. We’re not the only ones but Interxion is
growing to meet high demand for services. We recently
opened a new facility in Amsterdam, expanded in London
and announced plans to grow in Brussels. We now have over
40,000 square metres of colocation space in 24 data
centres covering 11 countries. We offer equipment housing,
power and cooling, cabling, bandwidth, peering, backup
and systems management and monitoring.
In a world where capital expenditure is anathema and
everyone wants to move to a model based on operating
expenditure, the appeal of outsourced facilities for core
activities can only grow. Look, for example, at the trend
Greg McCulloch,
UK Managing Director,
Interxion
Greg has 17 years Project and
Executive Management
experience in Sales, Business that some
Development, Data Centre pundits call
design and delivery, and has ‘software as a
held a number of Executive service’ or ‘on-demand’.
Management and advisory roles Typified by
Salesforce.com, this movement puts
within the telco and data centre applications in data centres and enables users to
sector. In the last 2 years alone access them over the internet. This is one of the most
Greg has been involved in the significant shifts in the way IT is used by businesses
due-diligence, design, build, today, with the emphasis on resources moving away
sales and management for from the behind-the-firewall internal model that has been
approx 260,000 sq ft of Data the usual way of operating ever since IT came into
Centre space across the UK. existence, to an external role.
Salesforce.com has been
hugely successful in persuading companies that this is
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