Business Chief USA March 2020

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with quality infrastructure. “Our data
centres have to be highly resilient in
terms of network architecture and the
type of equipment that we use. We use
premium products, driven by premium
service level agreements. We build
our own private network across the
Southeastern US and then we connect
that back into exchanges and public
cloud providers. We really look at that
connectivity and the uptime of our
facilities as the core value that we bring
to our markets.” Achieving DC BLOX’s
high standards also requires a high
standard of construction. ”Beyond the
connectivity, it’s a question of how we
build these facilities to be Tier 3-rated.
It comes down to being concurrently
maintainable, meaning that if any one
system in the building fails, there is a
backup system that can take over. It’s
part of the design, it’s in the materials
and the type of vendors that we use.
It’s in the architecture for how we connect
them together.”
The pace of DC BLOX’s growth has
been steady, having launched a data
centre each year since 2017. That’s
not engendered any complacency,
however, with the organisation looking
MARCH 2020