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How would they become a data center company? There are 1000s of huge companies using a mix of colocated DCs, their own DCs, and cloud providers like AWS includi
by wil421 8y ago
How would they become a data center company? There are 1000s of huge companies using a mix of colocated DCs, their own DCs, and cloud providers like AWS including the majority of Fortune 500 companies. Most of them are not datacenter companies like QTS.
- zjaffee 8y agoMost of these companies aren't managing their own data centers at least for areas that use a large amount of compute. Banks and the like that have their own data centers, generally are still using some type of contractor to manage the physical real estate, network connections, ect. even if they are the ones purchasing the servers.
- wil421 8y agoCome on, that’s like saying Google has no business having datacenters because they are an Advertising and Search company. Of course large companies will have contractors to scale up and down. They will have FTEs doing System Administration and Software Engineering on the servers.
- llama052 8y agoAs if Google or Amazon isn't using contractors for some of their stuff as well?