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Building Your IT From Scratch
Forbes.com (Dec 14 2009) Construction
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What would a data center look like if an established company could start all over again?
That’s exactly what happened when chemical giant J.M. Huber spun off its kaolin mining unit last year, a business that already had a full roster of customers and deep know-how about how to run its business--but no IT infrastructure or business processes of its own. Forbes caught up with Senad Hadzic, CIO of KaMin LLC, to talk about the new company’s IT strategy.
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Forbes: What happened to your data center when KaMin was spun off?
Hadzic: There was no data center. We started from zero. We bought the assets of the company and then we had to create an information technology platform from scratch.
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