NEWS
Uptime Institute
announces
strategic
partnership
with CBRE
ptime Institute, the global data
centre authority, and CBRE
Data Centre Solutions, a leading
integrated data centre operations
service provider, have announced a
strategic partnership.
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The partnership will enable CBRE to offer
its customers the industry’s only purely
operations focused data centre risk
assessment solution as part of CBRE’s
‘Critical Environment Risk Management’
(CERM) portfolio.
Mike Doolan, Chief Reliability Officer,
CBRE Data Centre Solutions, said: “Our
data centre customers look to CBRE to
proactively offer the means to reduce
their risks associated with delivering
business services.
“In response, we sought out the industry’s
most respected provider of data centre
risk assessment services to become an
integral part of our risk management
solution. By adding Uptime Institute’s
Management and Operations stamp
of approval assessment service to our
own operational offerings, we can make
available unparalleled risk mitigation
services to our customers.”
Key indicators considered during the
Uptime Institute assessment include
the review of operational processes in
place, expected behaviours and the risk
mitigation methods that need to be in
place to ensure efficient and effective data
centre operations.
Huawei recognised for data
centre networking solution
uawei, a leading global
provider of information
and communications
technology (ICT) infrastructure and
smart devices, has announced that
its CloudEngine Switches have been
named an April 2019 Gartner Peer
Insights Customers’ Choice for Data
Center Networking.
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Gartner Peer Insights Customers’
Choice analyses more than
200,000 reviews across more than
300 markets posted to Gartner
Peer Insights. These reviews are
based on direct peer experiences
of purchasing, implementing and
operating a solution.
In markets with sufficient data
available, Gartner Peer Insights
recognises the vendors who are
the most highly rated by their
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customers through the Customers’
Choice distinction. Huawei has been
operating in data centre network
markets. Since its launch in 2012,
Huawei’s CloudFabric Cloud Data
Center Network Solution has been
deployed in more than 7,800 enterprise
data centres in over 120 countries.
“The real test for product is the
customer experience and we believe
this recognition on Gartner Peer
Insights represents the commitment
we have to our customers to provide
world-class products for improving
their ICT infrastructure,” said Leon
Wang, President of Huawei Data
Center Network Domain. “We strive to
provide our customers with the data
centre networking solutions that meet
their needs and we will continue to
innovate new offerings and build on
their feedback.”
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