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NTT BRINGS GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY TO RAGINGWIRE CUSTOMERS
RAGINGWIRE DATA CENTERS
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Recently , RagingWire announced plans to build new data centers on coveted land in Silicon Valley ( Santa Clara to be exact ), and in Chicago . These new locations complete Raging- Wire ’ s portfolio in the most popular U . S . data center locations , but the company is also planning developments in other emerging markets as well .
NTT BRINGS GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY TO RAGINGWIRE CUSTOMERS
Today RagingWire is focused on meeting the demands of large enterprises and cloud providers which increasingly outsource data center capacity to take advantage of greater economies of scale , efficiencies , speed to market , security , space and reliability than they would have if they housed their mission-critical computers at their own facilities .
In January 2014 , NTT acquired an 80 % equity stake in RagingWire . Four years later in January 2018 , having doubled RagingWire ’ s capacity , NTT exercised its option to purchase the remaining shares .
By joining the NTT family , Raging- Wire became the platform for NTT ’ s
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Joe Goldsmith Joe Goldsmith is Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at RagingWire Data Centers , responsible for all aspects of go-to-market strategy and execution including : sales , marketing , product management , business development , channels , and sales operations .
Goldsmith is a proven sales executive with more than 25 years of experience , including more than a decade in the data center industry . JUNE 2019