Analyst Reports

Five Important Questions Every Procurement Officer Should Consider in Developing an Effective Datacentre Strategy

Companies must adopt a distributed strategy that includes colocated data centre resources, public and private cloud, and outsourced services. The success of this strategy will depend on the ability to choose the best data centre and IT partners for the company's specific needs.

Procurement officers have no shortage of challenges when faced with digital transformation initiatives. The easy path to an effective data centre strategy lies in answering key questions like:

How do I establish best practices for reducing risk in a distributed data centre ecosystem/environment
How can my company improve capacity planning
What services should I consider when partnering with a multi-tenant data centre (MTDC) provider