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“ Any mid-sized company upwards that doesn ’ t have a dedicated strategy around how they are going to migrate to the cloud will be left behind ”
We realised that in order to expand quickly and serve the market that was there we should hone in on a modular design that ’ s fit for purpose and covers the large majority of needs . By using that approach the business was able to bring the turnaround time down from 18 weeks to closer to 12 .
DC : Is the exponential growth representative of how important data has become to companies and organisations ?
PP : Absolutely , but I ’ d go further and say that data is also essential to us as individuals . Even you and I now , our data is raw material for somebody and for some purpose . Big Data requires analytics , and the processing required for that is enormous – even to predict something pretty inconsequential like how a sporting season will end runs various scenarios millions and millions of times and requires vast amounts of server space . It all feeds into the need for more data centres , and the only reason or circumstance I can really see that changing is if technology eventually allows that data to be stored on something far smaller – and we ’ re not there yet .
DC : Can you expand on why colocation is becoming an increasingly used approach to data centers ?
PP : Colocation is absolutely the way to go . Developments in cloud have really made it impossible to go any other way for all organisations , from small companies to the largest conglomerates . Security-wise , because of its dispersed nature , it offers several advantages and makes cyber attack far more difficult . The beauty of migrating from the private to the public cloud is that everything is open and free for people to dive into . There will eventually be no need for security , because part of the security is that it ’ s already open – there ’ s no need to ‘ shut ’ everything in the traditional sense , it just needs to be hosted in a secure data centre .
AUGUST 2020