Data Centre Investment…Don’t Jump to Conclusions.
As an investor or a data centre operator considering building new facilities, or a CIO weighing up build or buy arguments to manage an...
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Data centres should no longer be on the CIO’s dashboard
We've been kicking around building blocks of the ideal 'business model' for data centres. The exercise has taken us through provider...
Is Marketing Talking to Your Customers?
Market segmentation, ideal client profiles and client personas are necessary, but not an alternative to talking to customers.On the...
Going Green Can be a Logistics Issue
I don't think anyone wants to run a dirty data centre, to use a Greenpeace term. Much of the debate has tended to focus on balancing...
The Equinix bid for Telecity. Purely a spoiler, or something deeper?
You have to ask the question, was Equinix caught a little flat-footed by the proposed Telecity Interxion merger when it was announced back...
AWS is profitable: What this means for the data centre business model
AWS has finally come out and started reporting its revenue and income figures separately from the rest of Amazon. In itself this hardly...
The Ark Government Data Centre deal: the benefits of not looking like a tourist
Last week the Register preempted the official announcement, due this week, that the Ark had scooped a UK Government 4 year “£700...
Datacentre Location: A Multiple Choice Question
You might be forgiven for thinking that the only place to be as a datacentre operator in Europe is in one of the current hotspots of...
Managing People Risk in the Data Centre
Last week I had a tour of the Equinix LD5 datacentre in Slough. It’s an impressive facility with a six nines availability record....
Data Centres. Look to Your Business Models
Forgive me for misquoting Charles Dickens, but for IT companies this must feel like the best of times and the worst of times. The...