About RLH Consulting

RLH Consulting is a company focused on Data Center Design and cloud service implementation strategies. The President, Ron Hughes, has over 25 years experience in designing, managing and operating data centers. He spent 12 years as the President of California Data Center Design Group, a worldwide data center design and consulting company. He also spent 3 years managing the State of California's two primary data centers after being appointed by the Governor as the Director of the Office of Technology Services and as the Chief Deputy State CIO. During this time, he oversaw data center, network and email consolidation, managed the State's open data initiative, wrote the state's policy on cloud services and Software as a service (SAAS) and was responsible for bringing cloud services into the State of California. 


With Ron's unique background, (he has designed data centers for colocation service providers, cloud service providers, government agencies, corporate users and supercomputer service providers), plus his experience in being a provider of data center services, RLH Consulting is poised to assist both customers and data center service providers. 



Internationally, Ron has worked in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. He has been the principal designer for two worldwide data center rollouts, Telegis Networks 2000 - 2002 and KIO Networks 2002 - 2014. Both of these projects gave him the opportunity to be involved not only in the design, but the creating the business model as well. Ron has a good understanding of not only how data centers provide services, but how they make money on those services as well. 



Contact Ron Hughes at 916-531-7396 or via email at Rhughes@rlhcons.com.

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