PLDT Enterprise, China firm ink cloud service partnership

MANILA, Philippines — The business-to-business arm of telco giant PLDT has been tapped  by an independent edge cloud service provider in China to further enhance its edge cloud service capabilities in the Philippines.

PLDT and BaishanCloud announced a business partnership to utilize PLDT’s local points of presence and data hosting capabilities.

PLDT’s VITRO Data Centers will host BaishanCloud in its VITRO Paranaque and VITRO Cebu 2, helping it provide edge cloud services to its users globally, especially its China-based users expanding into the Philippines.

Through this proposed partnership, PLDT said more companies, especially Chinese enterprises, would benefit from the telco’s services in the country.

“Establishing the partnership with BaishanCloud marks another one of PLDT’s strides to promote the country as a strong emerging digital hub in APAC,” PLDT Enterprise assistant vice president and Asia-Pacific regional head Jefferson Mendoza said.

“We are looking forward to supporting BaishanCloud with our resilient data center facilities and our ubiquitous submarine cable investments,” he said.

PLDT said the partnership would help bring diversity to the cloud landscape in the country as it expands the options, which PLDT Enterprise customers may choose from as they utilize the group’s infrastructure and services.

Founded in 2015, BaishanCloud is an innovative and independent edge cloud service provider in China with significant global reach.

With more than 1,000 global edge cloud services nodes, BaishanCloud is providing services and solutions in over 250 cities globally.

“We are very pleased to have formed this partnership with PLDT Enterprise.  This marks yet another important step of BaishanCloud’s global strategy, particularly in the Southeast Asia region. A partnership with PLDT Enterprise will provide us with more leverage in terms of network and resource capabilities which will enable us to better serve our clients in the country, “said Yuankai Guo, general manager of BaishanCloud (Singapore).