Philippines dominant carrier PLDT, through its wholly-owned ICT subsidiary ePLDT, is expanding its data center footprint with the construction of a $22.6million facility located in Makati’s central business district.
PLDT EVP and ePLDT president and CEO Eric Alberto said, “The PLDT Group is investing in ensuring that the latest VITRO facility is at par with data centers in leading countries with world-class security features adhering to global-standard operations.”
“When completed, VITRO Makati will add 3,600 full racks to our network of VITRO Data Centers and will ensure our readiness to support the growing ICT requirements of the enterprise market,” he added.
Set to be completed by fourth quarter of this year, the newest VITRO data center will have the largest floor space among its current line of data centers at 18,000 square meters and will deploy 8-layer level security to safeguard customers’ critical equipment and data with maximum protection.
VITRO Makati will have data center-rated generators designed to run continuously to eliminate the need for periodic cut-over to other gensets during long commercial power failures. This ensures the continuous operations of client servers collocated at VITRO Makati, even during lengthened power outages.
The new Data Center will also have isolated rooms for the Air Handling Units (AHU) which are intended to increase security and privacy of client-availed collocation services. Maintenance work can be done without having to access or expose the client’s servers. This new configuration will also minimize the possibility of dust and dirt entering the colocation space.
Strategically centered in Makati, VITRO’s fourth data center will largely cater to the colocation and other data center service requirements of large corporations, and the banking and finance companies with headquarters in the business district, PLDT said.