Category Archives: Data Centre Marketing

Opportunities for data centre operators in 2017

Based on quarterly reports from CBRE up to the end of Q3 the major European co-location markets of London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris, 2016 has been a bumper year for data centre operators. Nothing in any of the predictions and … Continue reading

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Social media is not a numbers game

In a previous blog we highlighted the importance of social media for data centres and looked at some examples of companies doing Twitter right. Now, we have taken our research further to assess the way in which data centres use … Continue reading

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You don’t need a new sales and marketing engine, just a tune-up

Not many companies have the time, money or inclination to completely reset their sales and marketing strategy or change the tools and structures that support it. Frankly, in our experience, such an overhaul is rarely necessary. Let’s face it, you … Continue reading

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One Show, Four Silos

Last week I spent two days at Cloud Expo Europe/Data Centre World/Smart IoT London/Cloud Security Expo. Never mind the potential extra attendees,  I am sure the organisers thought that, by bringing these four topics together customers would see a nice … Continue reading

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CIOs don’t give a damn about your PUE rating

Data centre operators repeatedly tell me that the era of “build it and they will come” has gone. Their offers are more nuanced now: pay-as-you use power, more flexibility around rack density, direct connectivity to the major public cloud providers, … Continue reading

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The Data Centre market pot is being stirred vigorously

Comment and speculation over the past few months has focused on the potential death of both co-location and enterprise data centres. Certainly the growth of AWS, Azure and other cloud providers along with apparent consolidation in the data centre operator … Continue reading

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5 essentials to ensure the success of your data centre proposition

An effective go-to-market program is about getting the right combination of resources, to deliver complete working solutions to the most appropriate target markets, articulated consistently and engagingly over a period of time that adds clear value to both the customer … Continue reading

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Which way now for data centres?

CenturyLink and Verizon are thinking of getting out of data centres, but NTT continues to expand. The Equinix Telecity merger has been given a conditional green light. Microsoft is responding to the challenge posed by the demise of the Safeharbor … Continue reading

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Stop taking selfies and put your customers in the frame

There are only so many ways you can describe a data centre, and even fewer ways of describing it differently from any other. Unless you bury it in a nuclear bunker for security, place it near to the Arctic Circle … Continue reading

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What’s Your Data Centre Model?

Data centres tend to look the same…well at least the new builds do. They all look as though they do the same thing providing space, power and connectivity and most of them complain that the market is highly commoditised. Two … Continue reading

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