brightsolid, a leading Scottish cloud hosting and data centre provider, says that it is the only Scottish company to win Rittal’s Data Centre Excellence award. Each year Rittal, a global systems provider, presents the award to the customer who has shown the greatest innovation in the design and running of a data centre and this year they decided this was brightsolid. brightsolid uses Rittal as part of the unique technology stack that enables optimal performance and extremely low power usage, positioning brightsolid as one of the most environmentally friendly data centre operators in the country.
“This award has been very well earned by brightsolid,” said Anthony Morgan, Account Manager at Rittal. “Its approach to building and running a data centre is hugely innovative and it has used technology in a way that is extremely beneficial to its customers. We look forward to our continuing work with brightsolid and witnessing its further innovative use of our technology.”
Opened in October 2015, brightsolid’s state-of-the-art Tier III Aberdeen data centre represents a ?5m investment into the Aberdeen economy. It was built and designed to the very highest standards of operational excellence in business continuity and security. brightsolid delivers a 99.99 percent uptime as standard, and is certified compliant in ISO 27001:2013 security and ISO 22301:2012 in business continuity.
“We’re extremely proud to be the only Scottish company to be awarded the Data Centre Excellence prize by Rittal,” said Richard Higgs, CEO, brightsolid. “We work incredibly hard to ensure that our facilities are accredited to the highest standards by all leading industry bodies like the Uptime Institute and Certification Europe. Our primary mission is to ensure that IT is deflationary for the rest of the decade and to do this we continually review our technology, its application and performance. This approach enables our customers, of all sizes, to live and work digitally whilst reducing the cost of service and increasing the value gained from technology.”
