Accountability – the "new” imperative

Outsourcing the requirement to own and operate data center capacity is the cornerstone of many digital transformation strategies, with almost every large enterprise spreading their workloads across their own data centers, colocation sites and public cloud. But ask any regulator, any chief executive, any customer: You can’t outsource responsibility — for incidents, outages, security breaches or even, in the years ahead, carbon emissions.

Chief information officers, chief technology officers and other operational heads knew this three or four decades ago (and many have learned the hard way since). That is why data centers became physical and logical fortresses, and why almost every component and electrical circuit has some level of redundancy.