ePLDT expands TIA-942 certifications to four data centers—most in PH

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ePLDT further continues to fortify the reliability of its data center services as it expands its TIA-942 Design Certifications to four data centers—currently the most number of the said global certification achieved by a data center service provider in the country.

 

The design certification means that ePLDT’s data center facilities conform to the stringent standards of TIA-942 guidelines ensuring that any data center component—including major apparatus and equipment—can be removed, replaced, or repaired without disrupting the operations of its customers.

 

ePLDT currently owns the largest telco-neutral data center network in the country under the VITRO brand, which are strategically located across the Philippine archipelago. To date, only five data centers in the country have received the said TIA-942 Design Certification rating, four of which are from ePLDT including VITRO Makati, VITRO Clark, VITRO Cebu 2, and the newly-accredited VITRO Parañaque. 

  

Nico Alcoseba, VP & Head of ICT Business for PLDT Enterprise, said that the new certification is a testament of ePLDT’s commitment to ensuring the availability and reliability of its customers’ critical data needs.

 

“Our customers rely on us for quality data center services for their mission-critical applications. And we at the PLDT Group are continuously fortifying our capabilities to meet the growing demands of our customers, and this latest certification is an attestation to our commitment of providing reliable data center services that will support their business resiliency and continuity,” said Alcoseba.

 

The TIA-942 Certification is a Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) program globally recognized as an industry benchmark for telecommunications data centers. It provides a detailed design specification for a highly available, secure, and well-connected facility to meet today’s IT assurance requirements.

 

The design guidelines set forth by ANSI/TIA-942 emphasize the redundancy design of data centers infrastructures to secure the highest availability during unplanned maintenance and infrastructure expansion without disrupting the services of colocation customers.

 

VITRO Parañaque is assured of achieving a minimum service availability of 99.99 percent uptime after its recently completed transformation program. This fortified the power efficiency, redundancy, and resiliency of the data center facility through power systems upgrades such as upstreaming of power redundancy and equipment modernization such as the upgrading of generator sets.

 

“As an end-to-end ICT service provider, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our infrastructure to better meet the needs of our clients. This new certification assures our clients of our commitment to always provide quality and reliable data center services,” said Dave Simon, ePLDT Chief Technology Officer and Cloud & Data Center Business Operations Head.

 

ePLDT has been aggressively growing its data center facilities since 2000, establishing itself as the Philippines’ premier data center provider. It is the largest telco-neutral data center in the country—maintaining 10 data centers and disaster recovery facilities with a 9,000-rack capacity and 26 MW of total IT capacity—ready for enterprise and hyperscaler needs such as colocation, cloud hosting, disaster recovery, managed servers, security, and network services.

 

For more information, visit epldt.com.

Get to know more about the founder of Wazzup Pilipinas

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He's been living a life full of rare perks and special privileges but all that in exchange of exerting extra effort in making a recognizable online presence not just for him but mostly for the personalities, brands, events and companies he is collaborating with.

Ross Del Rosario is the man behind Wazzup Pilipinas, a lifestyle and news blog  that has been around since 2013. Ross graduated from Mapua University, formerly known as Mapua Institute of Technology, with a course of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) and after graduation had a career revolving around Information Technology, the last of which was with the United Nations World Food Programme before he decided to setup his own business during a time when being an entrepreneur was a cool thing to be. Being the boss of his own business, it gave him the time to also become active online when social media, such as Facebook, became a popular way to share your thoughts and reunite with acquaintances like distant relatives and childhood friends, former schoolmates and classmates and colleagues from his previous employments, got in.touch with relatives who are living in the provinces or have migrated to different countries, and even gained him new friends online. 

Social media also led him to extend his online presence into creating his own blog site, but Wazzup Pilipinas was not born instantly, it took him a lot of trials and experiments creating other blogs before he finally settled on making Wazzup Pilipinas his only blog.

Ross, also known as the Pambansang Blogger, originally intended his branding as nothing more but his fun or humorous way of attracting attention but later on decided to continue using it when he noticed it opened more opportunities for him. Thus he tried to embrace the "national blogger" gimmick into a reality by promoting more about Filipino products and Philippine destinations like his recent 5-day tour of Oriental Mindoro as part of the Department of Tourism's Philippine Tourism Influencers where they visited various parts of the province to serve as a campaign to revive tourism back to its former glory.

Formerly Pasig-based and a busy blogger covering mostly product launches, presscons, and other blogger events, he took advantages of the free time brought about by the quarantines due to the covid-19 pandemic to renovate their unused Montalban, Rizal home into a now useful "blogging studio" where he has more space or room to move around, and to also level-up his hobbies like being a Plantito growing edible plants like vegetables and herbs, doing baking experiments like their own sushi bakes, muffins, and pizza, plus other productive stuff to keep himself busy.

He firmly believes that together with the people we meet on our events coverage or travels, we should all proudly make noise and shout-out to the world. Never mahihiyang ipagsigawan ang pangalan ng ating bansang Pilipinas dahil tunay na maraming dahilan para ipagmalaki ito... 

As much as possible, Ross always make the shout-out part of his blogging tasks, to actively engage more people to join in and set aside all inhibitions. The laughter or smiles he gets from most people he interviews or interacts with after doing the shout-out is rewarding enough...and there have been many instances when they do remember the shout-out more than his name. 

GHM Appoints GHC Asia as Lead Agency for Global Media Outreach

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GHC Asia will also be supported by partner agencies in the Middle East, US and UK

Inimitable creator of stylish hotels and resorts, General Hotel Management Ltd (GHM), has appointed Asia’s well-established luxury travel and lifestyle communications specialist, GHC Asia, as their global PR lead. GHM is the manager of internationally acclaimed The Chedi Hotels & Resorts, which are found in some of the world’s most exotic travel destinations.

GHC Asia’s remit covers GHM’s key source markets comprising Greater China and Southeast Asia as well as the Middle East, United States of America and United Kingdom. Through its offices in Singapore and China, GHC Asia will provide strategic counsel on transcontinental media outreach, content development and brand communications in partnership with an influential network of agencies, including GHC Asia’s partner agencies in the Travel & Lifestyle Network, including AllDetails Middle East for the UAE and Zapwater Communications for the US. The team will also be supported by Spotlight Communications in London. GHC Asia will lead the communications outreach to support GHM’s mission of delivering unrivalled lifestyle experiences in exotic destinations.

Being one of the industry’s leaders in stylish luxury hotels, GHM has conceptualised and operated a distinctive collection of internationally-acclaimed properties in some of the world’s most exotic destinations over the years. Each property embraces the brand’s philosophy of ‘a style to remember,’ melding contemporary interpretations of Asian designs with local archetypes and delicate details for inspired, memorable spaces that offer guests the very best each destination has to offer.

“GHC Asia shares GHM’s ardent passion for inspirational travel and hospitality excellence. Their strong cross-regional market intelligence and acumen on luxury trends synergise with our business strategy for the new era of travel,” said Clement Koh, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing of GHM. “We believe that this partnership will be instrumental to GHM’s global expansion plans marked by our 30th anniversary celebrations in 2022.”

“For three decades, GHM has established an incredible legacy as the frontrunner of sophisticated design experiences and heartfelt hospitality. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to share their visionary philosophy through integrated communications campaigns together with our partners,” said Paul Hicks, Founder and CEO of GHC Asia.



GHM currently operates four properties in Europe and the Middle East and it continues to redefine the luxury resort experience with eight new projects in the pipeline, including the highly anticipated launch of The Chedi Katara Hotel & Resort within the Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar in 2022.