Elea Digital and Vertiv announce strategic alliance to deliver Edge Data Center services in Brazil

Press Release

By Elea Digital

Rio de Janeiro, March 11, 2022 - Elea Digital and Vertiv announce a partnership to deliver Edge Data Center services in Brazil. Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, will provide operation and maintenance services for Elea Digital's data centers located in major metropolitan areas, including Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Brasília.

Vertiv's local technicians will provide support for this first high end service contract in Brazil. Through this partnership with Elea Digital, Vertiv will gain a larger and broader market to support the growth of the Brazilian data center industry. This partnership between Elea Digital and Vertiv aims to maintain market growth rates with a geographic presence across the continent.

Elea Digital's objective is to accelerate the standardization of its multi-site data center platform and, at the same time, guarantee its colocation customers secure services in line with global best practices. The partnership with Vertiv brings credibility to the automated, real-time management of the platform's key infrastructures. A suite of software applications will ensure energy efficiency and cost control across Elea Digital's six data centers.

According to recent studies by the Uptime Institute, the biggest bottleneck in the Brazilian data center industry is the lack of experienced workforce, especially far from the central region of São Paulo. By joining forces, Elea Digital and Vertiv will be able to provide knowledge and best practices to less developed but highly demanding metropolitan markets such as Brasília (where the Elea Digital SIG data center is the only Tier III facility), Porto Alegre and Curitiba. The two companies together will be able to bring the data center experience to these high-end markets at a faster rate.

"We are excited to begin working with Elea Digital on service offerings for cutting-edge data centers in Brazil. Our goal is to bring Vertiv and Elea Digital's expertise to less developed, but high-demand metropolitan markets," said Rafael Garrido. , vice president of Vertiv Latin America.

"The strategic alliance with Vertiv shows our commitment and enthusiasm for customer service as we continue to do our best to ensure that our critical infrastructure is kept equally secure, miles away from São Paulo's central cloud region," concludes Alessandro Lombardi, president of Elea Digital.

About Elea Digital:

Founded by Piemonte Holding in 2019, Elea Digital is a data center ecosystem with the differential of having a wide geographic distribution throughout Brazil.

Elea Digital's five data centers are on the edge of the cloud core region of Latin America, in the main Brazilian metropolitan areas: Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasília and São Paulo.

Currently, Elea Digital's main revenues derive from colocation and cross-connect infrastructure services provided to a wide range of clients, mainly concentrated in the information technology, telecommunications, banking, media and public sector sectors.

In December 2021, Elea Digital increased its share capital to allow Goldman Sachs Asset Management to co-invest to boost the platform's growth.

About Vertiv :

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers' vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communications networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the network edge. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 21,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries.