Data centers are notorious for the amount of energy they consume, and companies will do virtually anything to reduce the operating costs of these centers. Facebook (News - Alert) has built a 290,000 square-foot facility in Lulea, Sweden, because it is close to the Arctic Circle and it will be cheaper to keep the facility cool. So saying companies will go to the edge of the world to lower their data center energy cost is not an exaggeration. While Qatar is the furthest thing from the Arctic Circle in terms of temperature, the country’s largest telecommunication operator, Ooredoo, has formed a partnership with CommScope to create a smarter data center with the goal of increasing efficiencies across the board.
Data centers have become as critical as any other infrastructure in the world we live in today, and it is vitally important to ensure they remain operational 24/7 with minimal downtimes. With this new partnership, Ooredoo is looking to use CommScope’s intelligent LED and infrastructure solution for its new data center in Mesaimeer.
The CommScope Redwood, imVision and SYSTIMAX solutions is going to allow this data center to be more efficient while offering a high performance environment as Qatar continues to develop its world class digital infrastructure throughout the country.
“A major part of our focus at Ooredoo is enabling the best possible customer experience, which is why we are continuing to invest in emerging technologies in our data center to meet our end customers’ high performance services availability requirements,” said Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser Al-Thani, chief new business officer, Ooredoo. “We have invested in technologies that can support customers’ data center hosting requirements in the next decade, in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030.”
The imVision platform has an infrastructure management solution that combines intelligent hardware and software delivering comprehensive visibility and control over network connectivity. Using the Web-based graphical user interface (GUI), administrators are able to document and monitor the presence and location of all connected networked devices in real time. This allows the center reduced mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR), automated change management as well as improved efficiency and productivity.
With imVision organizations will:
- Ensure tighter security throughout the network
- Locate devices - and problems - on the network
- Enhance change management
- Simplify audits and compliance
- Increase operational efficiency, uptime and productivity
“We are extremely proud to be selected by Ooredoo to support this important project,” said Jim Curran, vice president, Enterprise Sales, CommScope. “We believe that the high performance and business impacting capabilities of our intelligent infrastructure solutions will make a positive difference for Ooredoo.”
Edited by Maurice Nagle
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