Business Chief USA October 2020

DC BLOX
COVID-19 CHALLENGE
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With the challenge of COVID-19
impacting organizations worldwide,
Uphues acknowledges that the
network has shifted. “Pre-COVID-19,
the network used to be delivered at
people’s offices,” he says. “However,
people are now working in lots of
remote environments, it’s changed
the way that people connect to VPNs
and driven a more hybrid type world.
This means that some of the things
you’re connecting and working on
are in your office and in a data centre
that’s close to you, whereas, there’s
also companies embracing cloud
computing at a faster rate. That’s
a hybrid environment to us.” Uphues
understands the network challenges
that have resulted from the pandemic
and stresses the importance of
customer-centricity. “At DC BLOX,
we have access through how we’ve
created our network and pulled
things together to give our customers
immediate access and connect to
over 50 carriers globally from one
of our facilities,” says Uphues. “We
provide it to the fingertips of our
customers. If you’re a customer at
one of our centres, you have access
to change to whatever business
demand you require.”
OCTOBER 2020