Rittal and IBM have signed a global alliance agreement, which had previously applied for the EMEA region. Rittal is thus one of the world’s leading IT infrastructure providers regularly working together with IBM’s resiliency services in planning, constructing, operating and servicing data centres.
As part of this, IBM is increasingly supplying Rittal IT infrastructure components in its project business for resiliency services.
“With this agreement, customers all over the world will now be able to rely on our common and innovative portfolio of services for constructing and modernising energy-efficient data centres”, said Hans Sondermann, Managing Director Sales and Marketing at Rittal. “Together with IBM, we are supporting the fast and easy development of modern and sustainable data centres with modular and pre-defined container solutions.”
“Digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and Big Data are key drivers behind the expansion and modernisation of data centres. In addition, the ever-increasing demand for IT services from the cloud means that nowadays, data centres with maximum energy efficiency are needed”, said Marcus Fischbach, Director Global Business Development IT and Global Alliance Lead at Rittal.
“Rittal has a formidable presence in the Middle East in the Data centre space & the global alliance with IBM will strengthen the appeal of our proposition to the region, adding more market segments in IT and Industrial sectors to this alliance, whilst consolidating the existing ones,” said Mr. Joseph Najjar, Managing Director, Rittal Middle East.