IO designs, engineers and delivers high-performance data centers and was recently awarded Tier III Certification for Design Documents on Phase 1 of IO.New Jersey.

What is Tier Certification?
Tier Certification is a vendor-neutral, third-party certification for system and operational sustainability delivered by the Uptime Institute Professional Services (formerly ComputerSite Engineering). The Uptime Institute Professional Services is the only firm licensed to rate and certify topology against the Uptime Institute's Tier Classification System.

What is Tier Certification of Design Documents?
Tier Certification of Design Documents ensures the site infrastructure solutions, as represented in the design documents, are consistent with the Tier objective of the project.

What is Tier III Certification?
Tier III is defined as redundant capacity components and multiple distribution paths serving the site’s computer equipment. Generally, only one distribution path serves the computer equipment at any time. Tier III facilities are concurrently maintainable with all IT equipment being dual-powered and fully compatible with the topology of a site’s architecture.

What is Concurrent Maintainability?
A concurrently maintainable data center has redundant capacity components and multiple independent distribution paths serving the computer equipment. Only one distribution path is required to serve the computer equipment at any time. Each and every capacity component and element in the distribution path can be removed from service, on a planned basis, without impacting any of the computer equipment.

Who is Tier Certified?
The Uptime Institute provides a list of all Tier-certified data centers on its website.

Read the press release: IO Awarded Tier III Certification for Design Documents