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“ THE OVERALL QUALITY , THE LEVEL OF SECURITY PROVIDED AND THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY AROUND WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR DATA AND YOUR DATA CENTRE IS SO MUCH MORE MATURE ”
— Petter M . Tommeraas , Senior Vice President Data Center Services , Basefarm the entire philosophy around what you do with your data and your data centre is so much more mature . That ’ s particularly the case for companies such as Basefarm that provide mission-critical services to customers . The broader pace of digital transformation has driven data centre growth in particular . From our perspective , there ’ s been a real shift in companies moving away from doing everything , and most of it well , to using digital technologies and tools to focus on honing their USPs and placing effort into the most important or core things . It means that the rest of those services - in this instance how to manage data - are sourced from other specialist companies .”
Basefarm is one such company . Founded in 2000 , it is today part of the Orange Group , and offers a suite of mission-critical IT services that covers Big Data , cloud , and managed , security and professional services . Tommeraas is responsible for operations related to data centres . “ I have two main responsibilities ,” he says . “ I deliver colocation to customers that want to mainly take care of their own operations but are looking for a service due to reasons
AUGUST 2020