Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 51 | Page 72

INDUSTRY WATCH University of Dammam benefits from data centre expansion by Vertiv When the University of Dammam needed to expand its data centre, its major goal was to boost efficiency in IT operations and maintenance. Given Saudi Arabia’s challenging temperatures, another crucial requirement for the institution was energy efficiency. It turned to Vertiv to supply a new data centre that offered maintainable infrastructure with an expected availability of 99.982%. 72 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com