An artist rendering of Dataspace's Moscow data center
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Russian data center developer DataSpace Partners (www.dataspace.ru) announced on Thursday that it has been awarded Tier III certification, the first designation in Russia and Eastern Europe, according to the press release.
A year ago, Dataspace announced that it had a $150 million loan to build or convert industrial sites in Moscow into data centers.
“This is an important milestone in the modernization of Russia’s infrastructure and supports Moscow becoming a financial center,” David Hamner, DataSpace CEO said in a statement. “Financial institutions and other modern enterprises, both global and local, rely on uninterrupted and secured data processing operations and we’ve introduced the industry standard facility product to the market.”
“When we looked at the market in 2008, we saw a lot of false claims about Tier III and knew from the beginning we would need to demonstrate what it really means and bring a truly world class data center to the market,” Hamner said. “We enlisted HP/CFS, Mercury and Schneider Electric as key partners and working together with Uptime Institute’s supervision from the beginning, we were able to accomplish the task. Of all the data centers around the world I’ve been associated with in my career, this is the best.”
Pitt Turner, executive director of the Uptime Institute says that Tier III means “concurrent maintainability” so the data center will never be shut down to maintain or replace the heating and cooling equipment. “Because all planned facilities shutdowns are eliminated, DataSpace 1 is a true 24 x 7 data center. Tier III Facility Certification is further significant because many data center operators claim to have Tier III, but only a small number have been verified as true,” he says.
“We are very pleased to award Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility to DataSpace 1,” Turner said in a statement. “As the first Certified Facility in Russia and Eastern Europe, this is a landmark accomplishment in the region. DataSpace hereby joins a short list of leading service providers who have voluntarily engaged Uptime Institute as an unbiased third-party to validate thoroughly the data center’s high performance capability.”
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