ASEAN Data Centre Alliance to provide one-stop-shop solution
ConvergenceAsia staff
21/07/2008

1-Net Singapore (Singapore), CMC Telecom (Vietnam), The AIMS Asia Group (Malaysia) and T.C.C Technology (Thailand) have announced the formation of the Data Centre Alliance (DCA), which has a combined space of more than 45,000 m2 and a projected annual turnover of US$77 million by 2009.

The announcement was made at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Intel and the DCA to accelerate Green Data Centre deployments in the region. The alliance will become one of the biggest data centre operators in the south-east Asia region catering for first-tier telcos, government agencies, banks and other businesses.

“This Data Centre Alliance sets the precedence for ASEAN data centre service providers to join forces and collaborate in enabling region’s enterprises to stay competitive in the global economy,” said Subra Shankhar, Intel APAC Enterprise Solution Sales Director.

The data centres within the DCA will meet Tier III and above standards as stated by the Data Centre Tier Classification from Uptime Institute. They will also be using ISO27001 as reference for the information security management system (ISMS), a quality management system (QMS) as per ISO9001 and an ISO20000 reference for IT Service Management Standard.

The Data Centre Alliance is an opportunity for our regional Alliance partners to extend our services by providing a comprehensive suite of regional data centre solutions to meet the regional business needs of our customers, said Yow Tau Keon, Managing Director, 1-Net Singapore.

"Leveraging Intel’s silicon innovation, regional telcos, service providers, MNC business customers can count on the Data Centre Alliance partners to take care of their business needs and provision of data centre services using state-of-the-art energy-efficient technologies."

One of the key objectives of the DCA is to develop Green Data Centres by applying modest energy saving technologies as the contribution for reducing the greenhouse effect and global warming. Intel was selected by the DCA due to its silicon technology leadership and the breadth of its experience in data centre solutions.

Intel shall advise and cooperate with the DCA in applying green/energy-efficient solutions that analyse and optimise the energy usage of transformers, UPS, Air-Conditioner and memory.

The collaboration enables the members of the DCA to have early access of Intel technology, facilitating the provision of customised data centre solutions that best address the needs of enterprises competing in the ASEAN region as well as the global economy. This includes early access to Intel processors, platform and other products through technology seminar, review systems, and test samples.

Subject experts at Intel and the alliance members will form a virtual taskforce for knowledge sharing and evaluation for strategic technologies, such as Intel Virtualisation Technology and Intel vPro technology.

Intel also committed to open its data centre for visit and organise seminars with its data centre experts.

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