Q . WHAT IS CYRUSONE , AND WHAT HAS IT ACHIEVED SINCE ITS FOUNDATION ?
» CyrusOne is a leading global data centre developer and operator , specialising in delivering state-of-theart digital infrastructure solutions .
We have come a long way since our beginnings in 2001 – we now have more than 50 high-performance mission-critical facilities worldwide ensuring the continued operation of digital infrastructure for nearly 1,000 customers , including approximately 200 Fortune 1000 companies .
Q . WHAT LED YOU TO THE DATA CENTRE INDUSTRY ?
» I went to Reigate Grammar School – Keir Starmer was a few years above me , and David Walliams was a few years below me ! – and then for university , I went to Cass Business School and studied Property Valuation and Management .
Following my degree in real estate , I joined the real-estate services company CBRE ( then known as Richard Ellis ) and worked to qualify as a chartered surveyor .
While working on the AT & T account , I was sent on training programmes in the US , where I learnt the basics of telecommunications . This proved very handy when the telco boom occurred in the late ‘ 90s !
I became a go-to subject matter expert and , over time , formed my own data centre team . We were busy helping the real estate side of the telecoms network deployment – landing stations , building small data centres and establishing points of presence – which gradually grew , to bigger data centres , colocation staff facilities and more .
It was that exposure to the telco boom that helped me discover my passion for data centres and allowed me to build on my experience in the enterprise data centre market , to get to where I am today . I still find the foundation of what I learned back then useful today , particularly with the industry undergoing its hyperscale phase of development .
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