LEADING telecoms and digital services provider PLDT and digital enterprise solutions arm ePLDT recently launched their eighth operating data center facility located in Mindanao, the first such facility built in the region. The latest VITRO Data Center will cater to the growing data service requirements of thriving industries in the south and adds more racks to the PLDT Group’s current rack capacity of almost 7,000 from the ePLDT VITRO Data Center line and IP Converge facilities. The newest VITRO Data Center in Mindanao is a tier 2 facility designed to meet global data center standards required by industries with heavy data-security requirements like banks and financial institutions. It will soon operate two more facilities located in Clark and the expanded data center in Cebu, bringing the PLDT Group’s data center total count to 10 with an unmatched rack capacity of over 9,000—the largest in the country. Aside from the data center, PLDT also completed the Davao cable landing station project that links Mindanao to PLDT’s three existing international gateways located in Nasugbu, Batangas; Bauang, La Union, and Daet, Camarines Norte.

Source: Manila Times February 13, 2017 16:29 UTC