SÃO PAULO, March 11, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Elea Digital and Vertiv announce partnership to
deliver edge data center services in Brazil. Vertiv, a global provider of critical
digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, will provide
operation and maintenance services for Elea Digital data centers in
key metro areas, including Porto
Alegre, Curitiba, and Brasilia.
Vertiv's local technicians will provide support for this first
of its kind edge services contract in Brazil. Through the partnership with Elea
Digital, Vertiv will gain a larger and wider market to support the
Brazilian data center industry growth. The partnership between Elea
Digital and Vertiv aims at maintaining market growth rates across a
continent-wide geographical footprint.
Elea Digital's aim is to accelerate the standardization of its
multi-location data center platform and, at the same time, to
assure to its colocation clients secure services aligned with
global best practices. The partnership with Vertiv brings
accountability, automated and real time management of key
infrastructure. A set of software applications will ensure energy
efficiency and cost control to Elea Digital's six data centers.
According to recent studies of the Uptime Institute, the major
bottleneck in the Brazilian data center industry is the lack of
experienced manpower, especially when moving away from the central
region of São Paulo. By joining forces, Elea Digital and Vertiv
will be able to provide knowledge and best practices to less
developed but highly demanding metro-areas markets such as
Brasilia (where Elea Digital SIG
data center is the only Tier III facility), Porto Alegre and Curitiba. The two companies
together will be able to bring data center expertise to these edge
markets at a faster speed.
"We are excited to start working with Elea Digital on services
offerings for edge data centers in Brazil. Our goal is to bring Vertiv and Elea
Digital experience to less developed metro-markets, but with high
demand," said Rafael Garrido, vice
president of Vertiv Latin America.
"The strategic alliance with Vertiv shows our commitment and
enthusiasm with client service as we continue to do our best to
ensure that our critical infrastructure is maintained equally
secure, miles away from the central cloud region of São Paulo,"
concludes Alessandro Lombardi,
Chairman of Elea Digital.
About Elea Digital
Founded by Piemonte Holding in 2019, Elea Digital is a data
center infrastructure platform in Latin American with a
differentiated wide geographical spread and interconnection focus
across Brazil.
Elea Digital's six data centers are at the edge of the central
cloud regions in key Brazilian metro-areas: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Brasília.
Currently Elea Digital's core revenues are derived from
colocation and cross-connectivity infrastructure services provided
to a wide range of customers, mainly concentrated in the
information technology, telecom, banking, media, and public
sectors.
In December 2021, Elea Digital
increased its share capital to allow Goldman Sachs Asset Management
to co-invest in the platform turbinated growth.
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics
and ongoing services to ensure its customers' vital
applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with
their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important
challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks
and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio
of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that
extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in
Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv
employs approximately 21,000 people and does business in more
than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news
and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.