PLDT, through its ICT subsidiary ePLDT, has started building its fifth facility under its VITRO Data Center line in Clark, Pampanga, north of Manila.
Including the three data centers operated by ePLDT subsidiary IP Converge Data Services, the PLDT Group now will have eight data centers with a combined rack capacity exceeding 8,000.
PLDT has invested 1.3 billion pesos ($29 million) in the construction of the new data center, which is located in the heart of the Clark ecozone, VITRO Clark.
Once it is fully operational, the data center will cater to the region’s thriving business communities and planned IT hubs in Central Luzon and could also serve the disaster recovery requirements for other businesses elsewhere. It will also boost the growth of ICT-demanding industries in the area like the business process outsourcing, outsourcing and offshoring, and retail.
“This new data center will be compliant to global standards with enough rack space to accommodate the production requirements of the enterprises based here in Luzon, as well as the disaster recovery requirements of those based elsewhere,” said PLDT EVP and ePLDT president and CEO Eric Alberto.
Adding an additional 1,230 rack capacity to the PLDT Group, the 5-storey building will have 8 level access security control and redundant infrastructures to ensure highest uptime service level.
The planned data center is anticipated to boost the region’s business communities and growing IT hubs. Recently, Metro Clark was reported to enter the top 100 list of 2015 Tholons International Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations Report, making it the 8th Philippine city in the list.
PLDT meanwhile unveiled its Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offerings, the latest addition to the PLDT Cloud products.
The products are said to expand the workplace as it allows users to access it online and work on their desktop set up from any smart device via the internet or a private network.
Accessible from any device, DaaS is offered under PLDT Cloud hosted in PLDT’s globally-certified line of VITRO Data Centers assuring customers the security and business continuity of the service. It features the basic applications of Microsoft operating systems in desktops which is upgradable and efficiently maintained in the cloud servers of PLDT.
Offered under the PLDT Cloud line, the cloud-based service is a joint offering of PLDT with leading global virtualization and cloud infrastructure firm VMWare.