PLDT one of the leading telecoms and digital services
provider has officially opened the biggest data center at Makati
City, the country’s premier business district, to serve a wide range of
organizations, particularly those handling vital data such as banks, business
process outsourcing (BPO) firms, IT and content providers and government
institutions.
The new VITRO Makati is the 7th
Vitro Data Center in Philippines that sits on a 1.8 hectare property with
3,600 rack capacity. It is equipped with systems and facilities to
guarantee continuous operations, ensuring that businesses can utilize robust
and scalable digital infrastructure, as well as world-class 24/7 technical
support capabilities.
Building Design
The new data center in Makati is built on
special architectural techniques and materials planning were implemented to
provide the data center with advanced protected design to make the building:
- Earthquake Resistant- up to Seimic Zone 4 or Magnitude 6/7
- Flood Proof – Elevated floor at 1.4M
- Wind Proof – up to 300KM Velocity
- Fire Proof – employs fire-rated wall and partitions
Security
- 8 Layers of security – from Site entrance to Rack Checkpoint.
- 24/7 Monitoring and CCTV Surveillance – Round the clock security to ensure the facility.
- All-Area Acess Control – A combination of biometrics & access cards
As a result,
VITRO Makati is rated to withstand earthquakes up to intensity eight in the
Richter scale. The data center is also compliant with global design standards.
Each major
component of the facility is configured with redundant counterparts in place
that seamlessly operate to anticipate adverse events, including power
generators and Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units.
As part of the
VITRO network of data centers, VITRO Makati also serves as a carrier-neutral
Internet Exchange facility that provides numerous IP peering services, enables to access to local and international content.
It is
also a Nexcenter-certified facility, allowing its clients to use globally
standardized Nexcenter services of world leader NTT Com at some 140 locations
in 84 cities of 19 countries, in addition to NTT Com’s Arcstar Universal One
private-network service, which is already available in the Philippines and
which is largely used by the country’s BPO industry.
The PLDT Group
now operates 7 data centers all over the country with a total rack capacity of
nearly 7,000 to serve the needs of small, medium, and large enterprises across
various industries, including banking, financial services, outsourcing,
telecoms, and gaming.
PLDT Vitro will also open its 8th
Data Center on Clark, Pampanga and Cebu/Davao by 2017.
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