In the dozens of datacenters I've visited while working on projects for various clients, head counts are often far lower than 35.
In cases where the datacenter is being rented out to customers for colocation, the entire staff - which might be a dozen or less - is often working as glorified remote hands for an ops team located elsewhere.
I've also worked with a number of Fortune 1000s that have a sizable on-site datacenter footprint, but zero FTE resources dedicated to datacenter operations itself. Everything is divvied up among existing groups (facilities, IT ops, security, etc.), and occasional projects (structured cabling, rack and stack, etc.) are outsourced.
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In the dozens of datacenters I've visited while working on projects for various clients, head counts are often far lower than 35.
In cases where the datacenter is being rented out to customers for colocation, the entire staff - which might be a dozen or less - is often working as glorified remote hands for an ops team located elsewhere.
I've also worked with a number of Fortune 1000s that have a sizable on-site datacenter footprint, but zero FTE resources dedicated to datacenter operations itself. Everything is divvied up among existing groups (facilities, IT ops, security, etc.), and occasional projects (structured cabling, rack and stack, etc.) are outsourced.