CASE STUDY
ABU DHABI MUNICIPALITY SELECTS HUAWEI TO BUILD ITS DISASTER RECOVERY DATA CENTRE
As an increase in data volume and new services dominates data centre growth and development , Abu Dhabi City Municipality ( ADM ) needed to update its data centre setup in order to meet future requirements . It therefore embarked on a digitalisation journey with Huawei .
T he Abu Dhabi City Municipality ( ADM ) chose to partner with Huawei , a company that has the largest share of the global modular data centre market , to build an uptime TIER- IV Municipal Disaster Recovery data centre .
With millions of visitors every year , Abu Dhabi is often , somewhat poetically , described as the bright pearl , glimmering on the south coast of the Persian Gulf .
‘ Supporting community happiness through the delivery of sustainable urban growth and municipal services ’ is the stated vision of ADM . In the age of rapid Digital Transformation , municipal data centres are key , providing not only government office services but resident information management and municipal services , too . Simply put , data centres are indispensable for community life .
However , ADM ’ s legacy data centre setup was unable to meet future development requirements , given the influx of vast amounts of new services and a massive increase in data volume . The question of how to improve data reliability , security and data centre sustainability became an urgent focus for ADM .
Building the best Disaster Recovery data centre possible with Huawei
Huawei FusionModule2000 was the first data centre to receive Uptime TIER- Ready IV certification . Local construction engineers only needed to carry out simple on-site installation , since this modular data centre is prefabricated in the factory , and it was quickly brought online and ready for use .
Indeed , FusionModule2000 adopts a fully modular design , supporting the sustainable development of municipal services , with flexible capacity expansion possible for a range of subsystems , from power supply to cooling and IT cabinets .
On May 6 , 2020 , the Uptime Insight officially awarded Uptime TIER- IV design certification to ADM ’ s municipal Disaster Recovery data centre . Abu Dhabi can now put its trust in the security of its ultrareliable municipal data storage .
What ’ s next for the future ?
Ahamd Abdulsamad Alhammadi – Acting Director of the Technical Planning Department , Abu Dhabi Municipality , said : “ Our digitalisation journey with Huawei has transformed our operations , building more resilience and convenience throughout the municipality . The TIER IV Disaster Recovery data centre , jointly built with Huawei , fully demonstrates the industry ’ s most advanced solutions and impeccable customer service . We are guided in our digitalisation by the vision of the UAE ’ s leadership to enhance our community through technology . Huawei is our partner of choice and we look forward to our future cooperation .”
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