China Unicom initiates international data center in Tianjin

Posted on: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:48:00 EDT


Symbols: CHUFF, CIUCF
TIANJIN, Jul 03, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
CIUCF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- China Unicom's (0762.HK; CHU.NYSE)
Tianjin data center was put into operation on Thursday.

The data center, called the Tianjin Huayuan International Data
Port Five-Star data center, will be a base providing data center
outsourcing services to domestic and foreign enterprises, Internet IT
firms, and governmental departments, according to Jiang Zhengxin,
vice general manager of China United Telecommunications Corp., parent
of China Unicom.

The data center, the country's largest one in scale, is
capable of providing a series of services, including data center
trusteeship, network arrangement, network security, system
integration, and server maintenance.

According to Jiang, the telecom operator plans to strengthen
overall planning of development of internet data center (IDC) to
launch such center in major areas of the country. Up to now, it
established 14 four-star data centers in key Chinese cities, namely
Beijing, Tianjin and Qingdao.

The carrier expects to establish an international storage
center and an international remote-backup center later.

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