(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT services provider Fujitsu (www.fujitsu.com) announced on Monday that it will partner with the Nanhai People’s Government of Foshan and Guangdong province to jointly invest and build the Fujitsu South China Data Center, Fujitsu’s first world-class data center in China, according to a report by Tech-On.
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The parties will invest $29.5 million in building the data center in the Guangdong High-tech Service Zone for Financial Institutions, which will span approximately 32,808 square feet. The project is expected to begin operations in early 2011.
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Fujitsu is currently in the midst of building a few data centers, including new facilities in Perth and Melbourne, Australia, and is currently a scouting for areas within Western Sydney, Australia for a location with sufficient power to build a new data center.
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The company has worked with the Nanhai People’s Government of Foshan and Guangdong province since 2007, when they first established the Guangdong High-tech Service Zone for Financial Institutions.
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The zone was developed in accordance with the requirements of building Nanhai into a back-office service base of financial institutions. Once the zone was in place, Nanhai District approached various leading IT firms aroudn the world, first contacting Fujitsu in late 2007.
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Over the past two years, senior management of both Nanhai District and Fujitsu have met and discussed the areas of financial data business, IT services and software.
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They both found potential areas for co-operation and eventually reached a concensus, which lead to a series of co-operation agreements with concrete results.
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Nanhai District and Fujitsu’ signing of the cooperation agreement represents a new level of the bilateral co-operation between the two parties, with the Fujitsu South China Data Center being the first project the two have announced.
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Fujitsu will use the new data center to provide a range of services, including system application management and maintenance through contracted service, IT support management, bank back-office service and data processing service.
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