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ertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. The company solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centres, 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 around 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. The company owns three flagship brands: • Chloride is a suite of global industrial power solutions designed to meet the most demanding technical specifications and provide safe, reliable power.
Hoping for the best in the event of real-life loss of mains power simply isn’t an option... Absolute proof comes with black testing” Advancement through adaptability
An innovative company by nature and a market pioneer by name, NGD is equally defined by its forward-thinking approach. One such example of this can be found in the company’s attitudes towards critical power checks, regularly undertaking full-scale black testing to ensure that its systems and backup power networks will function correctly in the event of an emergency. “Hoping for the best in the event of real-life loss of mains power simply isn’t an option,” explains Jenkins. “Absolute proof comes with black testing. “ “Every six months, with the
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permission of our customers, NGD isolates incoming mains grid power and for up to 16 seconds the uninterruptible power supply takes the full load while the emergency backup generators kick in. “It’s done under strictly controlled conditions and we are only cutting the power to one side of a duplicated infrastructure, but it ensures we operate in the most reliable way possible.” Similarly, the firm’s technical knowhow and wider services emphasise this admirable attitude, demonstrated by its flexible customerfirst offerings. Building in a modular fashion, NGD aligns its profiles to customer orders
• Liebert is a global power and thermal management solutions brand, providing leading power and cooling technologies. • NetSure is a set of power systems which deliver high availability, energy efficiency and scalability for converged networks. Vertiv operates from sites the world over, a network comprising 28 manufacturing and assembly facilities, more than 250 service centres and 16 customer experience centres and labs. “We offer unsurpassed global scale Xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx and broad expertise, built from our heritage as Emerson Network Power,” the company states in its corporate presentation. “And now as Vertiv, we match industry leadership with the focus and spirit of a startup.” As well as Next Generation Data, Vertiv serves clients all around the world, including Alibaba, Alstom, AT&T, China Mobile, Ericsson and Vodafone.
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