CORE DATA CENTRES
“ TO A CERTAIN DEGREE I ’ M ALWAYS THINKING OF A DESIGN : HOW IT CAN CHANGE AND HOW IT HAS TO EVOLVE ”
— Bill Henneberry , Chief Technology Officer , CORE Data Centres
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“ Demand isn ’ t slowing down in the data centre world , but we had to really change our protocols ,” says Henneberry . “ We couldn ’ t just let anybody come into our centres without being tested correctly or following the protocols . That did slow us down with regards to construction or retrofits or just having anybody in the data centre doing what we would normally do .
“ What is changing mostly , though , is the way we think . There are a lot of office buildings that are sitting there empty right now across the way in
downtown Toronto , for example . The owners of these companies are trying to figure out , ‘ Okay , what do I do next ?’ They ’ re increasing their bandwidth because , as soon as you leave one location , if you understand networking , and you have it all over the place , it ’ s like a different mesh network . You need to provide a different topology across the board on how to connect everything . I ’ m working on another project right now for a client where , we built an SD LAN solution for them , with firewalls and everything , to all their remote locations .”
FEBRUARY 2021