Jakob Carnemark, Aligned Data Centers
Jakob Carnemark: Customers are looking for flexibility and control. For too long they have been forced to take capacity according to an artificial, fixed-ramp schedule that resulted in them paying for more than they needed and used. This model is nearing the end of its useful life.
Customers have become accustomed to the cloud model of pay-for-use and are starting to demand a similar approach for their colocation requirements. In terms of retail and wholesale, we don’t believe in drawing boundaries. The customer’s needs are changing, IT hardware is evolving, and the cloud is offering them options they have never had before.
Our data centers are engineered to accommodate any scale requirement. We believe in a utility model for compute infrastructure. Customers want this flexibility and control over how they consume capacity, and many times it does not fit neatly into a retail or wholesale definition.
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