Construction Magazine April 2020 | Page 16

DC BLOX
16 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
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