Last month in China, Japan-based Fujitsu announced the launch of its first data center in the country.
Called Fujitsu South China Data Centre, the new data center will be located in the Guangdong High Tech Service Zone for Financial Institutions to be managed by Fujitsu South China Technology Services Limited.
According to a spokesperson from Fujitsu China, Fujitsu South China Technology Services has invested $30 million in the new data center. Fujitsu declined to give specifics or timeline when the data center will break even, but said "Fujitsu is bullish about the potential of the data center."
Cloud services pending
The Fujitsu South China Data Centre will be targeted at delivering data center solutions to government, banks, financial institutions, manufacturing, transportation and logistics organizations.
Initially, the data center will provide co-location services and add managed services "to differentiate [itself] with competitors." In the long run, "we will eventually offer cloud services," said the Fujitsu spokesperson.
For network connectivity, Fujitsu is engaged with all three network providers in China -- China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile -- for local and international access for the data center.
As of April 2012, there are about 30 staff working in the Fujitsu South China Data Centre.
The Fujitsu spokesperson added that the Fujitsu South China Data Centre is the company's "first world-class data center in China." And it has been listed in the "Guangdong Top 500" modern industrial projects which provide "advanced, comprehensive information technology support as well as secure and professional data storage solutions for the South China region."
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