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EVOBITS corners are you cutting if you are able to offer these prices ? Why is it so cheap ?'. They think that we can ’ t offer this performance for under a half or a third of what other suppliers in the market offer . We built everything properly , with the latest high-performance equipment , with top-of-the-line software components , and we ’ re simply trying to not overcharge anyone . Even our biggest customer – who we ' re building the AI cluster for – came to us directly and said , ' your prices are so low that people are really thinking that something is off here '. “ We need , therefore , to convince our customers that we are not cutting corners and are not underpricing our services , but that other providers are overcharging them .”
EvoBits IT ’ s upcoming 3rd DC EvoBits IT are also focused on a third DC . Finding the right location has been a challenge as , for DCs , location is key . Specifically , power is a big problem , because data centres require large volumes of it to function effectively , and EvoBits IT is in a city where a number of areas have been built up and a lot of power resources have been used up .
The next stages are about obtaining approvals for the new location and for the new building , which is also a lengthy process . There ' s a lot of bureaucracy involved . Balaci says : “ We hope that we ' ll be able to overcome all the challenges on the way which will be basically the implementation of all lessons learned . We aim for it to be as efficient as our most efficient , as reliable as our most reliable , and as flexible as our most flexible DC . We expect the building permits and zone development permits to come sometime next year .”
The critical importance of the partner ecosystem EvoBits IT ’ s partner ecosystem is also key to its successes . Hearkening back to evolutionary analogies , this ecosystem functions in a way that ’ s somewhat akin to symbiosis .
One of these partners is Supermicro , who has been very reliable . Most of EvoBits IT ’ s servers have been from Supermicro , and they have proven themselves to be – despite the fact that they ’ re a big company – extremely adaptable , and , as EvoBits IT offer
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