PLDT, the country’s largest telecommunication company has stepped up its roll out of data centers nationwide and will have a total of 10 data centers with a total capacity of over 9,000 racks by next year. The Operator said that it will increase its total investment in the data center business to P10 billion.
PLDT currently operates six data centers and plans to soon open two new VITRO Data Centers located in the Makati central business district and Clark special economic zone. The Operator also plans to put up its first data center in Mindanao by next month and another data center in Cebu next year.
Operated by ePLDT, a wholly owned subsidiary of PLDT, the VITRO network of data centers is designed to provide businesses with the highly robust, secure and scalable infrastructure they need for their mission-critical data to serve large enterprises, particularly banking and financial services, business process outsourcing, and online gaming firms.
ePLDT currently operates three VITRO data centers located in Pasig, Subic and Cebu.
In the meantime, ePLDT unit IP Converge (IPC) operates three more data center facilities located in Makati, Bonifacio Global City and in Sucat, Parañaque, that primarily serve small and medium enterprises, or SMEs.
Eric R. Alberto, CEO of PLDT EVP and President of ePLDT
Enterprises and consumers can only fully experience and benefit from the digital economy if the country has a solid foundation for its digital infrastructure. Thus, the PLDT Group continues to invest heavily in building this foundation to support a data-driven future.
