Philippines' largest telecom company strengthens information infrastructure

By EgovAsia Editors | Feb 10, 2010

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), the country’s largest telecommunications company, has selected EMC to strengthen its information infrastructure in order to drive its market position as the preferred full-service provider of voice, video and data at the most attractive price, service quality, content and coverage.

PLDT is working with EMC to scale up its data storage capacity, as well as strengthen its information protection and disaster recovery capabilities, to support the company’s new and existing critical applications such as data provisioning and customer billing.  

“Information traffic continues to grow regardless of the prevailing economic conditions,” says Wilma Cruz, CIO of PLDT and Smart Communications Group. “With three principle business groups engaged in fixed line, wireless, and information and communications technologies, we have a huge responsibility in providing uninterrupted and efficient services to subscribers in all our customer interface aspects. Furthermore, it is important to cut cost levels and maximize our hefty investments in fibre optic, fixed line, cellular and satellite networks across the country.”

In addition, Cruz says that a unified storage and disaster recovery infrastructure are required, and called upon EMC to help PLDT consolidate its storage infrastructure, provision less, and extend the shelf life of the company’s technology investments.

Currently, EMC is deploying the EMC CLARiiON CX4, a mid-range networked storage system that features a next-generation architecture specifically optimized for virtual server environments and designed to incorporate the latest technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security.