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provider, Cologix has reinforced to
Maskell the importance of accommodating
customer needs as they evolve.
“One of the biggest lessons I have learned
is to remain agile – that covers agility
from executive management, and
sales, but more importantly it’s agility in
terms of operations, construction and
design,” he says. “Our industry is altering
rapidly: deployments are modernizing,
business plans are being reshaped
by emerging technologies and new
innovative ways of delivering services
are continually being rolled out.
Facilities now have to scale to meet
those challenges and demands in order
to allow the client’s business to succeed
over three, five or even 10 years. I do not
have a crystal ball that can predict what
those changes and demands might be,
but our facilities need to be designed,
constructed and operated in a way that
allows us to quickly add, remove and
change the capacity for power, cooling,
interconnection and so on.”
Embracing the industry-wide
movement towards a dispersed and
interconnected data centre model that
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