CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
“ Sustainability is going to be a key market driver and it ’ s something that has to be thought about very smartly when designing any data center ”
74 colocate , that ’ s reduced to two and half to three years . If you ’ re a large bank or conglomerate , why start building budgets for five years ahead when you don ’ t need ? It ’ s an obvious choice .
DC : With that in mind , do businesses need to have a dedicated data centre strategy in place today as part of a wider digital transformation strategy ? PP : It ’ s essential . 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 . The technology and the market are developing so rapidly that if you wait too long to determine the system or solution that you need , it ’ s too late . It ’ s already been designed and built to someone else ’ s requirements , so you ’ re reduced to buying off the peg .
On the other hand , if you have a strategy it gives you the opportunity to feed your requirements into the industry , to be working with owner-operators two or three years in advance of the latest technology being introduced so as to plan properly the amount of space you need , the demands your business will have and how to meet that demand and let you scale .
AUGUST 2020