CITIC Telecom International: Empowering Clients with World-Class Data Center Services
Xin Yue Jiang, ChairmanWith a minimum Tier 3 reliability standard and neutral policy, CITIC Telecom provides reliable and scalable data center solutions coupled with unmatched support to its customers. The design criteria for the new phase of data center development for the CITIC Telecom Tower (CTT) data center in Hong Kong is to maximize power supply and rackspace to meet the requirements of cloud service providers. “Following the feasibility study and design of the CTT extension, we have over 190,000 ft2 that can be developed into data centers—of this, with over a hundred racks available from September 2018 and 500 more racks available in a year’s time,” explains Xin Yue Jiang, Chairman of CITIC Telecom.
Apart from data centre development, CITIC Telecom continues to venture into innovative transformation from its traditional telecommunications business. After years of effort, the Group has become an Internet-oriented telecommunications enterprise providing comprehensive services with diversified development.
“We serve three main customer segments—carriers, enterprises, and consumers—through subsidiaries specializing in diversified businesses,” informs Xin. “Our business scope covers internet, fixed-line services, international telecommunications, mobile, and other enterprise solutions.”
The company provides international roaming facilities for voice, SMS, data, and other value-added services to global carriers. CITIC Telecom is one of the largest telecommunication hubs in Asia Pacific, with self-developed products like the DataMall mobile trading platform and SIMN.
CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom, is a trusted partner to multinational business enterprises in the APAC and European region. CPC offers all-inclusive ICT solutions, including MPLS VPN, EPL, Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Centre, Information Security, and other value-added services to multinational enterprises.
CITIC Telecom holds 99 percent equity interest in Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau, S.A.R.L. (CTM). This full-service integrated telecommunications service provider plays an important role in Macau’s ongoing development and is dedicated to becoming its smart city operator.
Another Singapore-based subsidiary of the company, Acclivis Technologies and Solutions, offers one-stop cross-regional enterprise ICT services including internet access, cloud, disaster recovery, and system and network integration. It offers tailor-made IT services that encompass and benefit servers, middleware, operating system, database, and virtualization. Acclivis is one of the largest independent service providers in the Asia-Pacific region.
CITIC Telecom has customers from across a wide industries/segments. The company’s prowess in delivering data center solutions can be explained with a case study that involved one of its long-time customers. A key driver in the technology sector, the client provided a state-of-the-art facility to support its digital community and required uninterrupted services. To ensure this, the customer needed to set up the right backup infrastructure and round-the-clock support, as well as an off-site backup infrastructure. CITIC Telecom stepped in at this critical junction to provide the client with the initial technical setup of a DR infrastructure at its data center facility, which mirrored the core network infrastructure while ensuring steady technical support services. Even as the function of the DR infrastructure changed to suit customer requirements, CITIC Telecom continues extending the data center facility and the Internet connectivity with futuristic DDoS protection.
“We are using the strong foothold of our parent company in Mainland China to our advantage in spreading across the globe and becoming a prominent internet-based telecommunications provider,” says Xin. With the core value “Wisdom and integrity foster prosperity,” CITIC Telecom and its subsidiaries have established branch organizations in 21 countries and regions. In addition, CITIC Telecom is strengthening its core infrastructure by building new data centers in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China to bolster its competitiveness in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area. CITIC Telecom continues riding on its existing experiences in mobile, cloud, and data center services, while simultaneously exploring new opportunities in IoT, AI, and SDN.
CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom, is a trusted partner to multinational business enterprises in the APAC and European region. CPC offers all-inclusive ICT solutions, including MPLS VPN, EPL, Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Centre, Information Security, and other value-added services to multinational enterprises.
CITIC Telecom holds 99 percent equity interest in Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau, S.A.R.L. (CTM). This full-service integrated telecommunications service provider plays an important role in Macau’s ongoing development and is dedicated to becoming its smart city operator.
Another Singapore-based subsidiary of the company, Acclivis Technologies and Solutions, offers one-stop cross-regional enterprise ICT services including internet access, cloud, disaster recovery, and system and network integration. It offers tailor-made IT services that encompass and benefit servers, middleware, operating system, database, and virtualization. Acclivis is one of the largest independent service providers in the Asia-Pacific region.
CITIC Telecom has customers from across a wide industries/segments. The company’s prowess in delivering data center solutions can be explained with a case study that involved one of its long-time customers. A key driver in the technology sector, the client provided a state-of-the-art facility to support its digital community and required uninterrupted services. To ensure this, the customer needed to set up the right backup infrastructure and round-the-clock support, as well as an off-site backup infrastructure. CITIC Telecom stepped in at this critical junction to provide the client with the initial technical setup of a DR infrastructure at its data center facility, which mirrored the core network infrastructure while ensuring steady technical support services. Even as the function of the DR infrastructure changed to suit customer requirements, CITIC Telecom continues extending the data center facility and the Internet connectivity with futuristic DDoS protection.
“We are using the strong foothold of our parent company in Mainland China to our advantage in spreading across the globe and becoming a prominent internet-based telecommunications provider,” says Xin. With the core value “Wisdom and integrity foster prosperity,” CITIC Telecom and its subsidiaries have established branch organizations in 21 countries and regions. In addition, CITIC Telecom is strengthening its core infrastructure by building new data centers in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China to bolster its competitiveness in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area. CITIC Telecom continues riding on its existing experiences in mobile, cloud, and data center services, while simultaneously exploring new opportunities in IoT, AI, and SDN.
CITIC Telecom International News
HONG KONG AND SAN MATEO, Calif. - CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited ("CITIC Telecom CPC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK:1883), and Cloudian today announced that CITIC Telecom CP... PC is introducing SmartCLOUD(TM) Object Storage solution based on Cloudian's HyperStore object storage platform. The offering, which will be part of CITIC Telecom CPC's SmartCLOUD(TM) solutions portfolio, includes backup with ransomware protection, archiving and big data management. As a VMware Cloud Provider Principal Partner with VMware Cloud Verified status, CITIC Telecom CPC's SmartCLOUD(TM) Object Storage solution further extends the array of service offerings running on a VMware-managed environment. CITIC Telecom CPC's customers will also benefit from Cloudian's limitlessly scalability, industry-leading security and cost effectiveness.
Enterprises face a growing challenge of efficiently storing and managing large volumes of unstructured data, including video and other multimedia content. At the same time, as data has become an increasingly strategic asset, it is also increasingly vulnerable to ransomware and other cyber attacks. As a result, CITIC Telecom CPC turned to Cloudian - via the VMware Cloud Provider Program - to provide a robust, modern storage foundation that would enable the company to continue delivering value-added services that address its customers' evolving data protection and management needs, including meeting various regulatory and compliance requirements.
CITIC Telecom CPC's SmartCLOUD(TM) Object Storage solution includes:
Ultra-secure data protection
- Offsite data backup with Object Lock for ransomware protection that creates an immutable data copy for fast, easy recovery of data in the event of an attack.
Data archive for compliance needs
- Addresses customers' regulatory and compliance requirements, including audits, with the ability to make data unchangeable for a set period of time.
Seamless accessibility
- Customers gain multi-cloud accessibility to datasets running on S3-based applications for greater convenience with lower overhead.
Scalable big data management
- Provides highly scalable, cost-effective storage for large datasets, with advanced metadata that facilitates artificial intelligence, machine learning and other analytics applications.
Great variety of connectivity options
- Supports connection with Internet, VPN (such as MPLS), point-to-point leased line and cross-connection within the same datacenter and SmartCLOUD(TM) Cloud Services Centers.
Simple billing model
- Basically only includes storage and data transfer out; API call for data access is free of charge.
In addition to limitless scalability, benefits of Cloudian's award-winning HyperStore object storage include:
Fully native S3 compatibility
- Ensures seamless integration with the expanding ecosystem of S3-based applications.
Advanced security
- Including Object Lock-based data immutability, secure shell, RBAC/IAM access controls, AES-256 server-side encryption for data at rest and SSL for data in transit, as well as certification with the most rigorous international security requirements.
Multi-tenancy
- Supports for secure, self-managed storage within a shared platform.
Geo-distribution
- Easy to manage storage across multiple locations, all from a single pane of glass.
"After considering various object storage solutions, we selected Cloudian for its rich feature set-particularly its geo-distribution, multi-tenancy and security-and its seamless integration with VMware," said Taylor Lam, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Management at CITIC Telecom CPC. "With the rising regulatory and compliance stringency on data management, we're excited about the new SmartCLOUD(TM) Object Storage solution for delivering a cost-effective storage service with enhanced data protection and management to our customers."
"CITIC Telecom CPC has been at the forefront in enabling enterprises to leverage new technologies to drive greater competitive advantage, strategic agility, and faster time to market," said Brian Burns, Vice President, Asia Pacific, at Cloudian. "We look forward to helping CITIC Telecom CPC continue to deliver on this strong customer commitment and further grow its business." Read more