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“WE’ RE REALLY FOCUSED ON OUR ABILITY TO SERVE LOCALLY AND CONNECT GLOBALLY ON BEHALF OF OUR CUSTOMERS ”
— Jeff Uphues , CEO , DC BLOX
Huntsville and Birmingham , Alabama , all built with a high level of security , reliability and connectivity . Uphues believes the challenge is to find a market that is underserved while ensuring there is a demand to gain benefit . “ We ’ re really focused on our ability to serve locally and connect globally on behalf of our customers ,” explains Uphues . “ We bring a Tier 3 or higher rated facility , which is the industry standard for reliable data centres , according to The Uptime Institute . When we look at these markets , we ask ourselves whether there is a Tier 3 data centre already there . Would the market benefit from us delivering a service that serves them locally , is a part of that community , and connects them as we live in a global society ? It ’ s key that there ’ s a value .”
Uphues affirms that his company ’ s data centres all have rich connectivity built-in and must be resilient in terms of its network architecture and quality of equipment . “ We use premium products , driven by premium service level agreements . We engineer and operate our own private data network across the Southeastern US between our data centres and then
OCTOBER 2020