The career to optimize digital environments that support artificial intelligence and high density computing applications has just taken a significant step. VERTIV HOLDINGS CO has closed the acquisition of Great Lakes Data Racks & Cabinets, Rack cabinet manufacturer and integration solutions with headquarters in the US.
Beyond the sum of products, the integration of Great Lakes provides talent, manufacturing experience and a catalog of racks and cabinets designed for both new facilities and modernization projects. Since its foundation in 1985, the company has consolidated a portfolio that includes standard solutions to antisismic cabinets, as well as customized designs to improve cable management and access to infrastructure.
The acquisition strengthens the leadership position of the company in integrated high density infrastructure solutions for data centers and critical digital environments
The CEO of Veriv, Gio Albertazzi, highlighted the importance of this incorporation at a time when the demand for environments prepared for AI is multiplied: “We are pleased to welcome the Great Lakes to Veriv team and begin to innovate in new White Space solutions. Great Lakes provides an exceptional talent and abilities that will improve our ability to offer integral infrastructure solutions, integral infrastructure solutions, promoting Veriv’s capabilities to customize on a scale and quickly configure computing environments of AI and high density. ”
BENEFITS FOR CUSTOMERS AND MARKET
The combination of Great Lakes solutions with the Vertiv portfolio will accelerate the delivery of preconfigured infrastructure, improve operational efficiency thanks to the factory integration of energy and cooling systems, and increase scalability for EDGE computing and artificial intelligence projects. To this is added the support of the Global Servic Services Network, which reinforces the support in any phase of the critical infrastructure life cycle.
