Global network services provider Digital Island Inc. said it has
launched
Hong Kong’s first data center built to distribute business-critical
applications to and from Asian markets via fast and secure network services.
Benefiting from the island’s rich fiber-optic infrastructure, the Hong Kong
Data Center is located at Telecom House in the Wanchai district, the company
said. Other Digital Island data centers are located in New York, Silicon
Valley, Honolulu and London.
“The new Hong Kong Data Center extends Digital island’s application hosting
and content distribution service into one of the largest potential markets for
e-business,” said Ruann F. Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island. “For
instance, IDC Research expects the Asian e-commerce market to more than
quadruple over the next three years to surpass $7.5 billion by 2001.”
Digital Island’s Data Centers are complemented by Local Content Managers
(LCMs), which are deployed in nine countries, including Hong Kong, Japan,
Singapore and Australia, to mirror and cache Web sites directly into
different markets.
The LCMs give Digital Island’s customers improvements in the price and
performance of global content distribution and hosting by circumventing
costly international circuits for delivery of bandwidth-intensive content,
the company said. LCMs are eventually planned for all 19 countries served by
Digital Island.
Digital Island said its services include global content distribution and
hosting, the localization of end-user online experiences and a global
Intelligent Network, all of which are designed to deliver the right content,
to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time.
