Emerson To Design Six DCs For Datacraft In India

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, has announced that it will design six Internet datacentres in India for leading IT solutions and services provider Datacraft. Emerson Network Power will also deliver datacentre infrastructure management solutions and cooling and power technologies for the datacentres, 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 datacentres 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 datacentres, 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 datacentres, to be designed and built for Tier III certification and 1.7 annualised Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), will be based on Emerson Network Power’s “Energy Logic” strategy for optimising energy efficiency.

“This is a significant partnership with one of the leading datacentre 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 datacentre services particularly for the government and public sectors.”

In addition to delivering key solutions and technologies for the datacentres, 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, 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.”