INDUSTRY WATCH
THE UNIVERSITY OF
DAMMAM WAS LOOKING
FOR A NEW DATA CENTRE
SOLUTION TO BE ABLE
TO FACE THE GROWING IT
DEMAND AND OPTIMISE
THE NUMEROUS
COMPUTER ROOMS
DISTRIBUTED ACROSS ITS
VARIOUS CAMPUSES.
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s the University of
Dammam continues to
grow and develop its
academic capabilities, its
data centre needed to be expanded
accordingly. Along with supporting the
increased use of data, the university’s
key goal was to boost efficiency in IT
operations and maintenance.
To address these growing demands, the
University of Dammam found Vertiv to
be the ideal partner for their new, state-
of-the-art data centre. achieving energy
efficiency in a hot climate the university
of Dammam was looking for a new data
centre solution to be able to face the
growing IT demand and optimise the
numerous computer rooms distributed
across its various campuses.
Moreover, the data centre had to serve
the University Hospital which was
recently expanded to an 11-storey
building with a capacity of over 600
beds. Given Saudi Arabia’s challenging
temperatures, the institution’s most
crucial requirement was energy
efficiency. A reduced footprint, rapid
deployment, reliability and sustainability
were also among the university’s
primary needs.
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“The main objective of building this data
centre is to increase efficiency by utilising
resources in smart and innovative
ways,” says Dr Saad AlAmri, CIO for the
University of Dammam. “Vertiv has a full
range of highly advanced solutions and
a strong local presence in Saudi Arabia,
that helped us achieve our goals.”
The new data centre, provided by Vertiv
and certified by the Uptime Institute as
a Tier III facility, is powered by six Liebert
80-NET UPS units. These are configured
to offer up to 1000 kVA of dual power
and multiple independent distribution
paths to the IT equipment.
The system design provides a
concurrently maintainable infrastructure
with an expected availability of
99.982%. To be able to face the extreme
climate conditions of up to 52ºC, the
thermal management equipment is
meticulously arranged deploying Vertiv
SmartAisle containment, coupled with
Liebert PDX and Liebert CRV units.
Outfitted with more than a hundred Vertiv
Knürr DCM Heavy-Duty Racks and Liebert
MPH power distribution units (PDU), the
Vertiv SmartAisle containment allows for
optimised air flow in a reduced footprint.
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