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| Samsung SDS' new data center built in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province / Courtesy of Samsung SDS |
By Jun Ji-hye
Samsung SDS has unveiled its new data center located in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, which will become the company's strategic location to expand its cloud business and reduce its heavy reliance on sister companies.
The company said during a media event held Friday that the new facility, which was completed in June, is a software-defined data center equipped with eco-friendly, high-tech facilities.
The new data center utilizes new renewable energy such as solar energy to maximize energy efficiency.
"The Chuncheon data center that was opened recently is the ambitious work of Samsung SDS, and is expected to do much to expand our cloud business," Samsung SDS CEO Hong Won-pyo said. "We will contribute to raising competitive power of our clients by offering systems that will resolve problems they experience in applying could computing and operate applications."
Hong noted the company will expand ties with non-Samsung affiliates and raise the total sales this year by diversifying its business portfolio including cloud computing, smart factories, big data and logistics.
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| Samsung SDS CEO Hong Won-pyo speaks during a media event at the firm's new data center in Chuncheon, Friday. / Courtesy of Samsung SDS |
The Chuncheon data center with a size of 39,780 square meters is the firm's fifth data center in Korea after those in Gwacheon, Gumi, Suwon and Sangam.
The IT services arm of the nation's top conglomerate, which had offered its cloud computing service to Samsung affiliates only, announced a plan in May last year to expand the service to external enterprises.
Currently, the company operates about 210,000 virtual servers.
The firm, which operates 15 data centers globally, was the only Korean company that entered the list of top 10 worldwide infrastructure managed services providers, selected by global research firm Gartner.
The Korean company has also formed strategic partnerships with global cloud service providers such as AWS, MS Azure and Google Cloud in order to provide cloud services customized for digital business.
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