Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, was Tuesday announced the proud winner of the iCMG IT Infrastructure Award for its Tier IV data center solution for Saudi Telecom Company (STC) at the iCMG Enterprise and IT Architecture Excellence Awards 2012.
The award was presented by iCMG Chief Architect & CEO Sunil Dutt Jha during the Architecture World Summit that took place last week in Bangalore, India. Schneider Electric won the industry distinction amid stiff competition from 19 nominations.
Abed Qasem VP-KSA, IT business, Schneider Electric, said: "We were up against leading players in the hospitality, education, oil and telecommunications sector to mention a few. However, our complete solution for STC has proved to be the benchmark we intended. We are very pleased to be standing here today and accepting this award from our peers. It is a real mark of achievement and seal of approval."
Built around Schneider Electric's InfraStruXure architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling and management solution for datacenters, the state-of-art data center takes the integrated systems to a higher level of performance by offering reduced operating costs and greater comfort and safety.
The STC data center's electrical and mechanical systems are monitored and managed centrally. By using the Schneider Electric BMS solution, STC was able to minimize the infrastructure cost, as well as the installation and operating cost. The centralized redundant solution ensured the availability of the system while realizing a considerable energy saving.
Jha said: "We congratulate Schneider Electric on their achievement. Our expert jury had to work within a comprehensive framework when making their assessments, and although all of the submissions were of a very high standard, Schneider Electric's STC solution was rightfully singled out."
Winners of the iCMG Awards for 2012 were selected by an expert panel.
