Schneider Electric was awarded the 2014 Southeast Asia ‘UPS Vendor of the Year’ and ‘UPS Service Provider of the Year’ awards for the third consecutive year at last Wednesday night’s annual Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards ceremony.

The energy specialist was also presented with the prestigious ‘Data Centre Integrated Power Infrastructure Company of the Year’ award for 2014.

Philippe Arsonneau, Senior Vice President of ITB Global Sales; Paul Tyrer, Vice President for Channels, Alliances, Strategy and Strategic Marketing, ITB Global Sales; and Keith Murray, Vice President for IT in Singapore and Brunei, accepted the awards and shared their insights on the Asia Pacific market and current trends affecting the UPS and data centre markets.

“With the dynamic IT industry facing challenges including the ever growing variety, volume and velocity of digital data, power tensions, and resource shortages, there is a drive in demand for more meaningful, holistic IT solutions that attend to every stage of a data centre’s lifecycle,” said Philippe Arsonneau.

“Schneider Electric understands and anticipates these challenges, consequently delivering innovative answers for customers from an SMB to enterprise level. Among these include our services bureau, involving a team of experts that closely monitor critical systems using Data Centre Infrastructure Management software; products such as our prefabricated data centre ‘building blocks’ and services like our end-to-end Data Centre Lifecycle Services monitoring solution.”