DC BLOX
JEFF UPHUES , CEO OF DC BLOX , DISCUSSES HIS ORGANISATION ’ S EXPANSION IN UNDERSERVED MARKETS AND HOW IT INTRODUCES ITS DATA CENTRES LOCALLY WHILE SERVING GLOBALLY
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F ounded in 2014 , DC BLOX develops core infrastructure that empowers businesses in smaller growing cities to achieve their digital transformation goals , and enables local governments to accelerate economic growth by attracting technology-dependent companies and jobs to their regions .
Jeff Uphues has been the CEO at DC BLOX since 2017 . He is responsible for setting and leading the company ’ s strategy in building and operating a fabric of edge connected , cloudenabled data centres and driving the growth and profitability of best-in-class infrastructure for digital services . “ My background has primarily been in the communications sector , both from a cloud , data centre and communications perspective ,” says Uphues . “ I ’ ve got around 30 years experience of increasing responsibility across various areas of the communications sector from fiber to network services to cloud-based hosting services to data centres . It feels like I ’ ve come full circle .”
DC BLOX currently has four data centres : Atlanta , Georgia , Chattanooga , Tennessee ,
OCTOBER 2020