Flexenclosure's eCentre for TigoUne in Colombia announced as finalist for DCD Latin America Award

23rd October 2018 – Stockholm, Sweden

Flexenclosure's eCentre data centre, built for TigoUne in Colombia, has been named as a finalist in the 2018 Datacenter Dynamics (DCD) Latin America awards.  The DCD awards recognise leadership and innovation in the data centre industry.

Designed and built by Flexenclosure in the Colombian capital Bogotá, the "Titanium" facility is the first Uptime Institute Tier III certified hybrid data centre in the country.  TigoUne is using it to integrate services such as cloud servers, applications, storage, backup and recovery, colocation, virtual desks, cybersecurity, IoT, big data and analytics and cloud environments – both private and public or hybrid.

"We are delighted that our eCentre project with TigoUne has been shortlisted for this prestigious award," said David King, CEO, Flexenclosure.  "Having previously won the DCD best modular implementation award for our facility for Tigo Business Paraguay, it's clear that we continue to lead the field in deploying the most cutting edge new data centres in Latin America."

Flexenclosure has been recognized at a multitude of ICT and environmental awards over the years, including Red Herring Top 100, Sustania 100, DCD Awards, DCS Awards, International Green Awards, AfricaCom Awards and GSMA Global Mobile Awards.

About Flexenclosure:

Flexenclosure provides sustainable Internet infrastructure – designing and manufacturing prefabricated data centres and intelligent power management systems for the ICT industry. The company provides systems that are fully integrated, modular, factory tested for reliability, adaptable to local conditions and quick to install.

eSite x10 is the world's first power system purpose-built for outdoor telecom sites and to outdoor telecom standards.  It is a patented, sealed, tamper-proof unit with passive convection cooling, no filters, no moving parts and it requires no maintenance.  eSite x10 is the future of telecom site power.

eCentre is a state-of-the art, custom-designed, prefabricated and pre-integrated data centre building that is fast to deploy, energy efficient and fully future proofed. With its flexible and easily expandable white space, eCentre enables highly capital efficient data centre deployments and has been certified up to Tier IV level.

Flexenclosure was founded in 1989. The company is based in Vara, Sweden, headquartered in Stockholm and has additional offices in Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria and South Africa. Customers include ACS, Airtel, Apollo Towers, CenturyLink, Globe Telecom, IHS Towers, Millicom, MTN, Vodacom and Zain.