IDCA donates to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, utilizing Data Center Education and Standardization funds.
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Washington D.C., September 5, 2017: International Data Center Authority (IDCA) has initiated a donation campaign effective immediately, to donate portions of funds obtained via its licensed providers for data center education and standardization across the industry to charity foundations of their client’s choosing.

The coverage will include local charity organizations such as: Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Food Bank, United Way of Greater Houston, South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, Food Bank of Corpus Christi, Houston Humane Society, San Antonio Humane Society, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, and the L.G.B.T.Q. Disaster Relief Fund. This donation campaign also covers other charity organizations such as: SBP, Brother's Brother Foundation, Samaritan's Purse, GlobalGiving, Islamic Relief USA, Convoy of Hope, Heart to Heart International, DonorsChoose.org, Matthew 25: Ministries, All Hands Volunteers, Medical Teams International, Americares, and Direct Relief.

Mehdi Paryavi, Chairman of IDCA stated, “Our hearts and minds are with the people that have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey. IDCA’s board has unanimously approved that 10% of all funds going towards IDCA’s data center education or AE360 standards adoption will be donated to charity.” Paryavi continued, “We hope that this initiative not only provide help and relieve to those impacted, but also sparks a light within our community that we must be environmentally conscious and human safety aware in everything we do.”

IDCA’s Hurricane Harvey charity campaign will cover 10% of all funds received via license providers of IDCA Education or Standardization worldwide. It will commence immediately and shall remain enforce till October 31st, 2017.

About IDCA Education - Education is paramount to the data center industry’s evolutionary success. Lack of effective education is the core cause that many data centers today are still building high-availability data centers without slightest regard to efficiency parameters, safety norms, security disciplines, operations team or invest millions in obsolete technologies and methodologies, or experience grave losses due to wrong engineering, design, operation and maintenance, or lack proper documentation, policies and procedures, or lack the required comprehension and understanding of compliance issues and benchmark towards optimization and excellence. IDCA has made its mission to bring educational conformance to the data center world, increase knowledge and know-how, create skilled jobs on the worlds information highways, and mandating educated, trained and certified data center professionals to be the only ones licensed to design, implement and operate the sophisticated complexities of the data center. More on IDCA Education: https://www.idc-a.org/data-center-training

About Hurricane Harvey - Hurricane Harvey was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005, ending a record 12-year period with no major hurricanes making landfall in the country. In a four-day period, many areas received more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain as the system meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent waters, causing catastrophic flooding. With peak accumulations of 51.88 in (1,318 mm), Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the contiguous United States. The resulting floods inundated hundreds of thousands of homes, displaced more than 30,000 people, and prompted more than 17,000 rescues. More on Hurricane Harvey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey

About IDCA - Headquartered in Washington D.C., The International Data Center Authority (IDCA) has been established to streamline, structure, educate and give direction to the data center and information technology industry. IDCA’s core mission is to aid in standardizing the feasibility, approach, selection, design, implementation, documentation and operation of data centers via modern-day processes and methodologies. Formed by data center industry veterans who realized the problems facing the industry and decided to do something about it, IDCA has perceptively identified the gaps and shortcoming of the data center industry. Hence, while it brings together the best-of-breed practices and principles currently existing within the industry, it caters to the business, technology and data center stakeholders the proper outlook of it on broader-scale as well as in-depth details of the information technology and the data center purpose and disciplines. More on IDCA: https://www.idc-a.org