IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

04.04.2012

Everything per country is duplicated, because we have certain in-country data residence requirements.

Do you own these four centers?

We will own two of the four and the other two will be collocation sites.

How about some specifics on suppliers?

For server virtualization we use VMware ESXi. For virtual desktop, which is used on our internal facing cloud, we're using VMware VDI 5.0. And then for the server stack we have a combination of Red Hat and , depending upon the function. We do mostly Oracle, as I mentioned, but we do have some Windows SQL databases for reporting.