This dual, concurrently maintainable chiller network forms part of the mechanical infrastructure at the Recovery Point facilities and is required in order to achieve Tier III rating from the Uptime Institute 

Recently, Recovery Point was awarded prestigious Tier III certification by the Uptime Institute, a foundation for education, certification, and leadership for the enterprise data center industry and data center professionals. This all sounds great, but what does it mean? In 1993 the Uptime Institute opened its doors, with the intent of becoming the authority in the data center industry. Along the way they developed the Tier Classification system for rating the concurrent maintainability and fault tolerance of data center facilities. In doing so, a method was forged for people to discern between companies offering data vaulting, tape backup, hot and cold sites, and any other data management services. Now here we are, living a long way from 1993 and technology and data backup systems have grown and been upgraded by leaps and bounds over the years. More...

For business and IT executives facing tighter budgets in today’s economy, maintaining the integrity of their organizations’ data is more challenging than ever. Data backup, availability and recovery, and the processes required to ensure data centric compliance, consume significant portions of already strained IT budgets. IT executives have no choice but to continue searching for ways to do more for less. A holistic approach to data recovery — integrating multiple services in a single contract — provides a way for organizations to meet shorter recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) and achieve better results with greater flexibility and at lower cost.

Information and speed are the heart and life’s blood of business today. Data in all its forms constitutes 80% of all corporate assets. And while the value of a business may depend on the integrity and security of its data, a business’ data in turn derives maximum value from speed: in particular the speed at which business users expect current and historical information to be accessible and the speed with which operations can be returned to normal should a disruption or disaster make information unavailable.
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