BASEFARM
PETTER M . TOMMERAAS , SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT DATA CENTER SERVICES AT BASEFARM , DISCUSSES DELIVERING MISSION-CRITICAL DATA SERVICES THAT ENABLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
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P etter M . Tommeraas recounts his first experience with a data centre as “ walking down a hallway in an office building , back in 1998 , and coming across several servers outside a single room off that hallway . Those servers and that room were the data centre . And that was a solution being delivered by one of Norway ’ s main data centre providers to a large , national customer .”
To say that the data centre industry has transformed in the 20 years or so that Tommeraas has been operational in it is something of an understatement . Currently Senior Vice President Data Center Services at Basefarm , a managed service provider that delivers services based on both public and private cloud services and manages its own data centres , Tommeraas has a unique view of an industry at the heart of global digital transformation .
“ The pace of change has been tremendous ,” he notes . “ Naturally , that change has been facilitated by technology , but it runs much deeper than that - the overall quality , the level of security provided and
AUGUST 2020