PLDT starts P1-B data center

PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. is starting work on a P1-billion data center in Makati’s central business district to serve mainly clients such as large companies and financial institutions in the area.

PLDT, through wholly owned subsidiary ePLDT, said the Vitro data center would be completed by the fourth quarter of 2015.

“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. Over the years, we have strived to ensure that PLDT is at the core of enabling this country to be digitally ready,” said PLDT executive vice president and ePLDT president and CEO Eric Alberto.

“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 said.

This Vitro Data Center will have the biggest floor space among its current line of data centers at 18,000 square meters and will deploy eight-layer level security to safeguard customers’ critical equipment and data with maximum protection, according to PLDT.

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 network of Vitro data centers operates three other facilities located in Subic, Cebu and its flagship facility in Pasig having more than 2,000 racks capacity—currently the biggest in the country. Aside from ePLDT Vitro, the PLDT Group also operates three other data center facilities under ePLDT subsidiary IP Converge Data Services.

“We have always been committed to investing in and expanding our data center business not only in building world-class facilities adhering to global standards but also in offering globally recognized services from colocation, hosting platforms, network and security services to big data dynamic platform,” ePLDT chief operating officer Nerisse Ramos said in the statement.