NTT GDC
The partnership strategy builds on standardised design approaches while providing suppliers with strategic planning information.“ At NTT GDC, we have a standard design that we use across the globe, which helps us with our customers’ time to market. On top of that, we are able to partner with people like Cummins and Schneider Electric and JCI to look forwards.
“ They have access to our roadmap years forward, so that they can plan accordingly. They help us with getting prepared for a new market and engineering based on what they’ ve seen across the world. Recently, with all the high-density changes, having these partnerships has enabled us to pivot quite quickly and leverage some of those partners to accelerate some of our builds,” she explains. Generator systems represent one of the longest lead time items in construction schedules.
“ Cummins is one of our generator suppliers, and they’ re focused across the Americas and different regions. They’ ve been with us for quite a bit of time. We work with them closely given generators are probably one of the longest lead items in the data centre industry,” Brittany emphasises.
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