Construction Magazine November 2018 | Page 98

GLOBAL SWITCH
98 continuous improvement programmes and comprehensive training . For that reason , Frankfurt South , since its launch , has enjoyed 100 % uptime . This shows that the architects and technical design team , the processes and the people have all done an excellent job in providing that kind of availability . If you are a customer , that is what you are looking for .” It is certainly something Daily-Tech – a strategic partner of China Telecom Global – is looking for , having taken up a substantial pre-commitment in Frankfurt North .
Khan puts much of Global Switch ’ s success in the data centre space down to its focus . “ The difference between us and many other companies over the past 20 years has been our focus on our core business . We have not tried to sell the services that our partners , system integrators , or cloud providers or telecom companies are offering . We do not want to compete with our partners . Our model has been across those 20 years , now , and in the future , built around our core business , which comprises of highly secure and resilient data centre services , and the provision of ‘ home ’ to primary and secondary data centres .”
NOVEMBER 2018