NEWS
Batelco’s
data centre
awarded Tier III
Certification from
Uptime Institute
Nidal Othman, Managing
Director, StarLink
atelco, a leading digital solutions
provider in the Kingdom of
Bahrain, has announced that
it has achieved Tier III Certification of
Design and Construction from the Uptime
Institute, for its RJR Data Centre.
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The milestone marks Batelco as
the Kingdom’s first commercial data
centre receiving both design and
construction recognition.
The certification is awarded by the Uptime
Institute, the globally recognised data
centre expert, and is a performance-based
evaluation of a data centre’s progress.
This certification is recognition of
Batelco’s continuous efforts to provide
the best services with the highest degree
of excellence in order to achieve the
company’s strategic vision, as well as
its commitment to applying the latest
systems to raise efficiency and quality
in performance.
Due to the reliability of Batelco’s data
centre facilities, companies that host
their equipment with Batelco are assured
of services that are the most secure and
scalable in the Kingdom.
Crucially, Batelco’s Data centre customers
benefit from continuous support
from the company’s 24-hour Network
Operations Centre and business-continuity
management facilities.
Batelco is focused on developing world
class data centre facilities to meet the
increasing demands from banking and
financial institutions, the public sector,
technology companies and multinational
companies that require sophisticated and
cutting-edge services.
The new facility will contribute
significantly to the Kingdom’s digital
infrastructure through its excellent
facilities, servers and security equipment.
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Issue 02
New partnership to enable
smart Digital Transformation
nterprises and organisations
based in the Arabian Gulf
are to benefit from a new
partnership which aims to enable
smart Digital Transformation.
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StarLink, a Value-Added-Distributor
(VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey
and Africa (META) region, has
announced the signing of a
distribution partnership with
Schneider Electric, a leader in
Digital Transformation of energy
management and automation, for
the region.
A principal provider of physical
infrastructure solutions for the
entire data centre and its life-
cycle, Schneider Electric delivers
legendary reliability and the
company’s EcoStruxure for Data
Center solutions protect and
optimise data centre and networks
for cloud and Big Data architectures.
With the Data Center Infrastructure
Management software (DCIM),
customers can collect and analyse
data, and control power and
processes system-wide or on
individual devices.
Schneider Electric offers a complete
portfolio of services to assess,
plan, design, build and operate a
data centre.
Under this sign off, StarLink will
represent Schneider Electric in the
assigned regions – Bahrain, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar and the UAE.
Nidal Othman, Managing Director,
StarLink, said: “Schneider Electric’s
technology will greatly complement
the StarLink cloud and data centre
portfolio that will solve specific
market challenges, enabling
customers to scale and accelerate
their Digital Transformation.”
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