Monday, March 7, 2011

Emerson to Design Six Data Centers For Datacraft in India

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, today announced that it will design six Internet data centers in India for leading IT solutions and services provider Datacraft. Emerson Network Power will also deliver data center infrastructure management solutions and cooling and power technologies for the data centers, which encompass a total area of 66,000 square feet and will enable Datacraft to offer co-location, hosted, and enterprise cloud services to its customers in India.



The data centers will be located in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, and Ludhiana.


Emerson Network Power will deploy its Aperture Data Center Infrastructure Management suite in the data centers, as well as its power and cooling technologies such as Liebert Smart Aisle and Liebert PeX with Digital Scroll, to deliver uptime service levels of 99.982 percent. Additionally, the data centers, to be designed and built for Tier III certification and 1.7 annualized Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), will be based on Emerson Network Power’s “Energy Logic” strategy for optimizing energy efficiency.


“This is a significant partnership with one of the leading data center solutions providers in the world,” said Dilip Kumar, chief operating officer, Datacraft Asia. “By leveraging Emerson’s leading-edge solutions, we are able to provide our clients with a comprehensive range of cloud and hosted data center services particularly for the government and public sectors.”


In addition to delivering key solutions and technologies for the data centers, Emerson Network Power will provide management of the mission-critical physical infrastructure for seven years.


“This partnership is the first step toward establishing a deeper business relationship with Datacraft,” said Sandeep Nair, president and managing director, Emerson Network Power in India. “We will leverage our capabilities to respond to our client’s dynamic business imperatives and enable Datacraft to respond to their own customers demands quicker and to improve operational efficiency.”