CDC Global Services, a business unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA – News) and a provider of consulting, IT and IT-enabled services, announced today it has entered into an agreement to provide design, implementation and operations services for the Foshan Municipal Cloud Computing Center. This Center provides cloud-based computing resources to the public sector users and businesses in the city of Foshan and the neighboring regions.
The City of Foshan is less than 50 kilometers from Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong. Foshan is one of the top-10 cities in China, with the highest GDP per capita. It also has a number of highly successful industries in the design and manufacturing of electrical appliances, textiles, garments and ceramics products.
To accelerate the adoption of cloud-based services, the City of Foshan is engaging CDC Global Services to design, implement and operate this government-funded Cloud Computing Center. Based on the IaaS layer (Infrastructure as a Service) that the government has invested to build, CDC Global Services has been engaged to design and implement the PaaS layer (Platform as a Service). This PaaS layer will support a set of open standards upon which SaaS-ready (Software as a Services) products from different suppliers will be selected and implemented to meet the needs of the user community that the Center is designed to serve. This is expected to include the provision of ERP services to the large number of businesses in the electrical appliances, ceramics products, textiles, garments and food processing industries. CDC Global Services also expects to provide on-going management and operations services in the Center and advise the government in the adoption of various SaaS solutions to meet the needs of the public sectors users and its business community.
Upon completing the PaaS layer implementation and the first phase rollout of the SaaS services, CDC Global Services has the option, under this agreement, to form a joint venture with this government-funded Cloud Computing Center to operate this Center and to provide cloud-based services to government agencies and the business communities in the region.
“We welcome CDC Global Services bringing world-class technologies and services to Foshan,” said Mr. Wan Zhikang, deputy of Nanhai, Foshan. “CDC is a leader who has pioneered the hybrid computing practices. We are delighted to have them as our partner in designing, implementing and operating our Municipal Cloud Computing Center. The City of Foshan has many highly successful businesses in the traditional manufacturing industries. Through the setup of the Cloud Computing Center, the Municipal government is helping these industries to further elevate their standards and qualities of their products; and to improve production methods and efficiencies that are more environmental friendly. We look forward to a successful partnership with CDC Global Services in operating this Cloud Computing Center and to provide services to our industries in meeting this set of objectives.”
CDC Global Services has a professional practice in China for the provision of cloud-based technologies and services to governments and enterprises in the design, setup and operations of both private and public clouds. This professional practice helps its clients in the architecture design and implementation of the IaaS and PaaS layers of the cloud. Based on the business needs of the clients and the communities these clouds are designed to serve, CDC Global Services assists the clients in choosing and developing the SaaS-based applications. It also provides services for the on-going operations and management of these cloud systems to ensure they are meeting their intended purposes.
“We are very excited to have this opportunity to work with the Foshan Municipal government in the design, implementation and operation of this Municipal Cloud Computing Center,” said CK Wong, CEO of CDC Global Services. “This venture with the Foshan government highlights the extensive expertise and breadth of IT services that CDC Global Services is offering to our clients in the area of cloud computing. CDC Global Services is delivering an infrastructure that can provide high level of service, response, security and system availability that is crucial in a cloud-based IT system. We also provide on-going operations management for the cloud to help ensure its success and the meeting of all its business objectives. We believe that China holds significant opportunity in the rapidly growing cloud market, and CDC Global Services has a comprehensive set of offering in meeting these needs. We believe we are well-positioned as a leading provider of IT services for the cloud market in China.”
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