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Uptime Institute Review Programme provides Tier Certification of product design to assure performance and differentiate modular offerings .

that the company has received six

Uptime Institute TIER-Ready design review awards . The Tier-Ready awards are intended to enable manufacturers of prefabricated and modular ( PFM ) data centre solutions to confirm the resilient design of their pre-built solutions and assure customers that these modular solutions will perform at the highest levels possible once installed .

The awards are for six global Huawei Technologies models ranging from 150kW to 600kW models of outdoor prefabricated modular data centres .

In Huawei PFM solution , each module is designed , manufactured , fitted with all systems and tested before shipping to its final destination , thus drastically decreasing the project time-to-market ( TTM ) and optimising customers ’ return on investment ( ROI ). Once on-site , these modules are joined together to form a single data centre facility with technical and auxiliary rooms ready to support customers ’ current business needs . Huawei ’ s PFM data centre has been ranked by the technology analyst firm Omdia as the number one supplier in the world for five consecutive years .

This high scalability and flexibility allows customers to build and grow to fit needs and requirements , thus decreasing their capital and operational expenditure ( OPEX ). Moreover , each module is designed , built , tested and certified to sustain the harshest weather conditions (– 40 º C to 55 º C ambient temperature ), in addition to rain , sandstorm ( Standard ingress protection IP55 , upgradable to IP 65 ), fires ( 120 min resistance ) and earthquakes ( up to 9 Degree Mercalli Scale ).

The Tier III-Ready designs awarded by Uptime Institute , uses the PFM solution as the backbone to provide six different deployment scenarios for IT load ranging from 150kW to 600kW with an average rack density of 6kW . These designs also cover all other structural , civil , architectural , power , cooling , safety , security and monitoring systems needed to support smart facilities . This will cut short the design and Tier III Certification time during delivery , decreasing the project time-to-market .

To help speed the Uptime Institute Tier Certification process for Huawei end customers , Huawei will now provide their customers access to Uptime Institute and the Tier Certification of Constructed Facilities award for the purchased units directly .

“ The Uptime Institute Tier-Ready programme is an excellent solution for prefabricated and modular data centres , allowing us to quickly deliver modules and ensure performance for our customers ,” said Jeff de Sousa , SVP Business Development Middle East , Huawei Technologies . “ The Edge allows us to help customers reduce latency for real-time applications and achieve the needed scale for data-intensive workloads .”

Uptime Institute ’ s Tier Standards are the industry ’ s most trusted benchmark for data centre performance and reliability .

“ Huawei understands the value of the Tier- Ready review programme , which confirms the resilient design of their reliable and environmentally friendly indoor and outdoor data centre solutions that support rapid deployment and flexibility ,” said Mustapha Louni , Managing Director , Middle East and Africa , Uptime Institute .

“ The Uptime Institute Tier-Ready programme simplifies the next step to Tier Certification for prefabricated and modular data centres , reducing time and cost , and enables further differentiation with the Tier- Ready achievement .” • www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO

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