Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Infra, solutions provider sees growth in Cebu
A DEVELOPER and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions is serious in investing in Cebu despite its present small market percentage.
This is because Cebu is the biggest market outside of Metro Manila, Teddy Sumulong, EMC channels manager, said during a press conference at the Cebu City Marriott Hotel last Thursday.
Though, it has captured five percent of the market, the company sees a potential growth in a few years, with the boom in the province’s information communication technology and the business process outsourcing industries, Sumulong said.
Clients
Its clients include telecommunications companies and banks, among others.
He said that from a server’s point of view, they are hoping that the demand will rise up to 200 percent to 300 percent, considering the growth of call centers and other information technology (IT) firms that will need a storage center.
The company’s products and services will come last in the setting up because they will serve the storage purposes.
“The storage portion will follow after the entire set up is made,” he said.
Jon Murray, EMC regional manager for protection and recovery strategies, said their products include both software and 46 percent of the hardware used to store information intelligently, archive inactive data, eliminate redundant data, streamline back ups and utilize snaps for incremental charges.
Strategy
He said it’s a strategy of “storing information at the right service level at the right cost.”
Sumulong said the company doesn’t have a plan of setting up an office in the province because they are confident in their local partners, adding that they will continuously support Cebu for this industry.
The company has a lot of local distributors, but the active ones include Dell, MSI and Micro D.
EMC, a $12.1-billion company, aims to help organizations of all sizes get the most value from their information and their relationships with the company.
It is a developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that help organizations of every size around the world to help keep their most essential digital information protected, secure and continuously available, the company said in a statement.
The company said it’s one of the ten most valuable IT product companies in the world driven to perform, partner and execute. (TEP)
