Vertiv partners with Uptime
Institute to deliver TIER-Ready
modular data centres
traditional construction process and with
improved system integration, testing and
commissioning. According to industry
analysts, 451 Research, the market for
PFM data centres is set to expand at a
five-year compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) of 14.4% through 2021, when it
will have reached US$4.4 billion.
“This agreement with Uptime Institute
ensures that facilities that utilise Vertiv’s
PFM data centres which carry Uptime
Institute’ TIER-Ready designation are not
only agile and efficient to deploy but also
demonstrably resilient and robust,” said
Viktor Petik, Vice President of Integrated
Modular Solutions, Vertiv.
Vertiv, a global provider of
infrastructure solutions, has
announced the launch of
prefabricated modular (PFM) data
centres which have been awarded Uptime
Institute’s TIER-Ready designation of
performance resiliency.
Use of TIER-ready designated PFM models
from Vertiv are a customer’s assurance
that once deployed, these infrastructures
can quickly and easily earn the coveted
TIER Certification of Constructed Facility
(TCCF). PFM solutions from Vertiv which
carry the TIER-Ready designation are now
available in Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA), with the aim to extend the TIER-
Ready programme globally later in 2020.
The TIER-Ready partnership is a strategic
agreement under which specific models
of Vertiv’s PFM designs are reviewed by
Uptime Institute during the engineering
development process, to assure that those
solutions meet the stringent requirements
of the globally recognised TIER Standard
of Topology. Vertiv PFM products which
carry the TIER-Ready designation directly
support the availability and uptime
requirements of demanding customers
who have chosen to strategically
implement TIER Certified digital
infrastructure. As part of the partnership
agreement, Vertiv has completed Uptime
Institute’s TIER-Ready III design review for
its SmartMod PFM infrastructure for up
to 10 racks and 80kW of IT load. Facilities
deployed using TIER-ready designated
SmartMod solutions will be able to quickly
and easily earn Uptime Institute’s TCCF.
A PFM approach is an agile and efficient
way for new data centre whitespace to
be deployed with significantly less on-site
installation required than traditionallybuilt
data centres. PFM deployments are
gaining significant traction – especially
in developing economies – as a way to
quickly build out new capacity, including
at the Edge, without the impediments of a
The Uptime Institute TIER Standard of
Topology is the industry de facto standard
for data centre reliability and resiliency
and assures customers that TIER Certified
data centres will perform in a definable
and predictable fashion under a widerange
of operating conditions, including
complete utility power failure. Uptime
Institute introduced its TIER-Ready
design review programme to enable PFM
suppliers to provide solutions which can
achieve the same levels of reliability and
resiliency already attained in thousands of
TIER Certified data centres worldwide.
The TIER-Ready programme streamlines
the process of earning TCCF by reducing
the engineering review time that typically
must be done for each specific data
centre installation. As a TIER-Ready PFM
solution, the Vertiv SmartMod 80kW
enables savings in time and installation
review costs which can be passed along
to the consumer.
“Vertiv SmartMod solutions which bear
the TIER-Ready designation can perform at
the same level of TIER resilience as larger
facilities, but in a smaller form-factor. This
is essential to building distributed critical
digital infrastructures,” said Chris Brown,
CTO of Uptime Institute. ◊
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