If I can ’ t explain the DataCube concept to you in under five minutes , then we have failed ,” says Jef Gorissen , COO and Founder of Data Valley Group .

For what it ’ s worth , Gorissen completed it under four .

DataCube ® is a patented concept from Data Valley Group . The ambition ? To create a data centre that caters to customers ’ current and future data solutions requirements .

Data Valley as a company was born in the mind of Jef Gorissen , Janine Wildschut from by Minga and their business partner Gerard Kuijs , following 20 years working in industrial and technical automation . In this role , Gorissen had one particular task – removing the element of a large process control system stored on an oil relay terminal .

This is where Gorissen first began looking into the world of data centres .

“ I began to investigate the data centre market in Europe . I visited the Netherlands , England , Spain , Switzerland , just looking at a lot of data centres . This was the first time I thought about building one of my own ,” he says .

Over the course of the next few years , Gorissen left his role and started Data Valley Group , focusing on the development of a new kind of data centre – the DataCube ® .

It is because of Gorissen ’ s work throughout industrial automation and processes that he could “ remove the complexity ” of data centres . This was the mentality that he wanted to inject into Data Valley moving forward . For any start-up company , particularly in the data centre

38 August 2017