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New Data Centers, New Realities

Posted October 24, 2000 | Leadership |

Recently, my work has caused me to spend time in "hosting" or "co-location" facilities. Run by specialized companies such as Exodus, Genuity, Internap, and others, these facilities at first appear to be simply independently owned data centers built to capitalize on the IT outsourcing movement. That's what they are, in part.

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Robert Austin
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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