VSNL Data Center Wins Optimal Network Award 2004
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Apr 1, 2004

VSNL, a customer of Emerson Network Power India Pvt. Ltd. (ENPI), has been recognized as the best Network Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) facility in the country.

Receiving the APC Optimal Network Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) Award 2004 for its data center facilities in Mumbai (Prabhadevi, Vashi) and Chennai, VSNL was felicitated at the recently concluded Network Computing CTO Forum. The award, acknowledges best practices in implementing a fail proof network.

APC in conjunction with Network Computing administered a vulnerability assessment test to a self-nominated list of organizations with data centers or server rooms. Parameters that the organizations were graded on included power supply, power distribution, cooling, IT racks housing servers, switches, and security that together create an uptime or 24x7 availability quotient.

Receiving the award, Hari Nair, senior manager, VSNL said, "At VSNL, we are continually guided by our customers' demands. Being accessible to them 24x7 requires that we work hard at creating a network that roots out downtime. In this endeavor, we have partnered with ENPI."

The nomination and assessment procedure, which lasted a month, gathered data against specific parameters and amidst detailed discussions with data center managers or heads of IT. This data was then analyzed to arrive at the availability or uptime level of the NCPI.