Hong Kong’s first financial data center opens for business

It’s located at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.

Japan’s NTT Communications said its Hong Kong Financial Data Center or FDC is Tier IV ready and offers 100% uptime service level and security measures to protect mission-critical data assets of enterprises.

Phase One of the FDC was opened May 31. Phase Two C is expected to be completed in 2015. Some 80% of Phase One has already been reserved.

Designed with green technology, the FDC boasts redundancy with a continuous cooling system, continuous rating generators and a compartmentalized infrastructure design. The two phases have over 70,000 square meters of gross floor area and over 6,000 racks in total.

In addition to its high capacity, the FDC is also equipped with an eight-tiered security access control.

Susie Ho Shuk-yee, permanent secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (Communications and Technology) said the Hong Kong government is committed to promoting the development of high-tier data centers.

“Today the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate houses a cluster of 12 high-tier data centers, occupying a total of 20 hectares of land and the Hong Kong Financial Data Centre of NTT is the latest addition to this impressive data centre family," he said.