CEO Andrew Schaap Discusses Aligned ’ s Adaptive Data Centers
CEO Andrew Schaap Discusses Aligned ’ s Adaptive Data Centers
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119 highways . Aligned was the operating group ’ s first foray into infrastructure of the digital kind . The entity saw a clear understanding that in order to compete with the buying power afforded to publicly traded Fortune 500 data brands , Aligned needs to be able to work the angles . Schaap and his team laser-focused the business , including flipping the traditional data center supply chain / vendor-managed inventory ( VMI ) on its head .
“ We did it essentially to counteract scale . Those [ Fortune 500 ] guys have buying power with scale and they leverage that buying power to get the best outcome out of the suppliers . What we did , essentially , was approach the supply chain differently by deploying capital and committing to capacity .”
“ Not everybody can do this . The publicly traded providers have to explain every dollar they spend to Wall Street , and get a return on it within a set period of time – or they get penalised .”
“ But because of Macquarie , our other capital partners and our business model , we were able to essentially look at the supply chain and be bullish
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