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Dubai Airports’ new Modular
Data Centre Complex (MDCC)
a ‘world first’
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THIS CENTRE
BOOSTS OUR
OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY AND
POWERS OUR
ABILITY TO GROW.
D
ubai Airports has announced the
successful completion of the world’s
first Tier III certified Modular
Data Centre Complex (MDCC) at Dubai
International Airport (DXB) following a tour
of the new facility by His Highness Sheikh
Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of
Dubai Airports.
The project was led by Dubai Airports and
delivered by Huawei – a leader in the field –
in just over 400 days.
The complex is equipped with next-
generation technologies to ensure
the highest levels of availability,
maintainability, resilience and seamless
business continuity to support DXB’s
growing and complex operations.
Dubai Airports worked closely with Huawei to
design and build the Tier Three pre-fabricated
data centre incorporating smart operations
and intelligent management platforms to
host critical IT systems. The new facility will
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provide a stable and reliable environment for
Dubai Airports to host its private cloud.
“With over 240,000 passengers and 1,100
flights per day, zero downtime and hundreds
of internal and external systems to manage,
high reliability and resilience are critical
requirements for Dubai Airports’ business
technology infrastructure,” said Michael
Ibbitson, Executive Vice President.
“This centre boosts our operational efficiency
and powers our ability to grow, innovate and
enhance the customer experience.”
The DXB data centre is the first of two
planned modular facilities that Huawei
will build for Dubai Airports. Together, they
will operate as a pair of mirrored Tier III
data centres interconnected through a
dedicated fibre optic link that will provide
high-level resilience and availability to
support the critical operations of Dubai
Airports. The timeline for the second facility
has yet to be finalised.
Alaa Elshimy, Managing Director and Vice
President, Huawei Enterprise Middle East,
said: “Huawei is proud to have worked with
Dubai Airports to deliver this exceptional
facility. It is one of the most advanced and
unique Tier Three certified data centres in
the world that will ensure highest levels of
availability, maintainability, resiliency and
seamless business continuity.” n
THE COMPLEX IS
EQUIPPED WITH
NEXT GENERATION
TECHNOLOGIES
TO ENSURE THE
HIGHEST LEVELS
OF AVAILABILITY.
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