“ Big Data requires analytics , and the processing required for that is enormous ”
71 worked at , CyrusOne , began at that time – around 15 years ago – working on data centres with the oil and gas sector in Dallas and Houston , for example . And , as you can imagine , it ’ s an industry that deals with huge volumes of data .
Essentially , companies that offer the owner-operator model are real estate businesses , they just buy and build data centres rather than penthouse apartments or houses . So , when it comes to scaling , just like other real estate companies , data centre owner operators will only invest the money when they have to . So , the blueprint is you buy the land , build the shell and the core , then don ’ t fit out until you have the customers .
Each company developed its own approach as to how to best scale in the sector . During my time at CyrusOne , for example , we developed our standardised ‘ cookie cutter ’ approach .
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