Nice news. 26 July 2010.
CDC Global Services, a business unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of consulting, IT and IT-enabled services, announced today it has entered into an agreement to provide design, implementation and operations services for the Foshan Municipal Cloud Computing Center. This Center provides cloud-based computing resources to the public sector users and businesses in the city of Foshan and the neighboring regions.
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The Nanhai People’s Government of Foshan, Guangdong province and IT provider Fujitsu have joined hands to invest and build Fujitsu’s first world-class data centre in China. The Fujitsu South China Data Centre will be built in the Guangdong high-tech service zone for financial institutions.
This agreement marks an extension of business collaboration between two partners who have been working together since 2007. This new initiative will be supported by the Guangdong Certification Authority (GDCA). This government body will work with Fujitsu Hong Kong and the Nanhai People’s Government of Foshan to build the new data centre and launch professional data centre services such as co-location services, data backup services and disaster preparedness services.
The Fujitsu South China Data Centre will provide IT support to small- and medium-sized enterprises in South China, especially those in the Pearl River Delta. This is also part of the company’s plan to expand its high-end data centre services to the rest of China.
Will begin operations from 2011
The project has been funded with US$29.5 million and companies estimate the data centre to cover around 10,000 sq m. Once the facility begins operations in early 2011, users will get a range of contracted services such as system application management and maintenance. IT support management, bank back-office service and data processing services are expected to increase efficiencies of organisations that choose to sign Fujitsu as their business partner.
