Johannesburg, 05 Apr 2017
Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has added an Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) designation to its arsenal, with the professional certification of Bennett Naidoo, business development manager: Infrasol at Datacentrix, allowing him to design, construct and assess data centres more efficiently, for accreditation and ranking purposes.
An independent advisory organisation, Uptime Institute is focused on improving the performance, efficiency and reliability of the business-critical infrastructure that underlies today's global information economy.
The company certifies data centres in terms of its globally recognised site infrastructure tier standards:
* Tier I - Basic site infrastructure;
* Tier II - Redundant site infrastructure capacity components;
* Tier III - Concurrently maintainable site infrastructure; and
* Tier IV - Fault tolerant site infrastructure.
In South Africa, 11 data centres have achieved Tier Certification of Design Documents certification, helping to ensure that before breaking ground, plans are configured to meet uptime goals and provide the sustainable business-critical infrastructure an organisation requires. Two data centres have achieved Tier Certification of Constructed Facility, confirming the facility has been constructed as designed, with verification that it is capable of meeting the defined availability requirements. The majority of these companies are telcos, financial services companies and Internet service providers (ISPs).
Says Naidoo: "Local organisations are becoming increasingly aware that there are a number of competitive advantages to be gained by optimising their data centres in line with global good practices. In fact, merely designing and constructing non-standardised data centres according to current and immediate client needs, and not for longevity, will soon be seen as bad practice."
With the ATD accreditation of Naidoo, Datacentrix is able to assist organisations in expediting the data centre accreditation process through its capability to design data centres in accordance with the Uptime Institute topology standards. The design documents can then be submitted to Uptime Institute for independent certification, verifying that the data centre has been designed to Uptime Institute topology standards.
In addition, Datacentrix can analyse and revisit existing data centres (within both public and private sectors), and make recommendations on intelligent enhancements and fault tolerance as well as to improve redundancy and maintainability.
"Revenue loss as a result of infrastructure failure within the data centre is a reality, and both data centre owners and IT managers are becoming more motivated to increase the levels of performance, efficiency, scalability, agility and reliability within this infrastructure level. Add to this the actuality that regulatory bodies are slowly increasing the pressure on local business to conform to best practice, and it makes more and more sense to design and build an accredited data centre," concludes Naidoo.
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