菲律宾电信商PLDT出售数据中心 交易额达5亿美元 - Philippine telecom company PLDT sells data center for US$500 million
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据悉，有消息披露，菲律宾电信运营商PLDT正在计划出售数据中心，并就此与摩根大通集团（JPMorgan Chase & Co.）进行合作。
目前，PLDT拥有近10个数据中心，总容量达72MW。与其他电信商一样，PLDT一直花费大量时间和精力来扩展其数据中心空间，因为这将极大优化连接表现，为其用户提供更优体验。不过目前交易对PLDT来说也将具有意义，将其出售给在市场上具有强大影响力的服务商后，PLDT可以减少持续的费用支出，以解决公司债务问题，更加专注于其核心业务。
香港IDC新天域互联还了解到，如果交易达成，最终交易额可能高达5亿美元，折合超过32亿元人民币。
电信运营商出售数据中心资产已经很常见，今年以来，香港电信商PCCW就确定出售数据中心业务，交易额达7.5亿美元。按照新天域互联整理，现时，电信运营商的新兴战略转变为以剥离非核心和可能下降的业务丶更加专注于核心业务丶追求不断增长的云市场的为主。
鉴于IT基础设施的持续重组和向云的迁移，电信运营商往往很难预测他们的数据中心需求。此外，与各合作伙伴关系的激增正在将软件推向IT边界之外。同样，云平台供应商承担大量IT工作负载。由此产生的对其未来数据中心需求的不确定性意味着电信运营商需要灵活的数据中心容量，如果他们在需要的时间和地点租用它而不是自己拥有基础设施，反而更容易获得。
在过去一段时间，特别是欧洲和美国的一些电信运营商已经成功地出售其数据中心业务，因此也可以相信大多数运营商都可以从此类剥离中受益。
It is reported that news has revealed that the Philippine telecom operator PLDT is planning to sell data centers and is cooperating with JPMorgan Chase & Co. in this regard.
Currently, PLDT has nearly 10 data centers with a total capacity of 72MW. Like other telecom operators, PLDT has been spending a lot of time and energy to expand its data center space, because this will greatly optimize connection performance and provide its users with a better experience. However, the current transaction will also have meaning for PLDT. After selling it to a service provider with strong influence in the market, PLDT can reduce continuous expenses to solve the company’s debt problem and focus more on its core business.
Hong Kong IDC Xintianyu also learned that if the transaction is concluded, the final transaction volume may be as high as 500 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 3.2 billion yuan.
It is very common for telecom operators to sell data center assets. Since the beginning of this year, Hong Kong telecom company PCCW has determined to sell data center business with a transaction value of US$750 million. According to Xintianyu Interconnection, the current emerging strategy of telecom operators has shifted to focus on stripping off non-core and potentially declining businesses, focusing more on core businesses, and pursuing the growing cloud market.
In view of the continuous reorganization of IT infrastructure and the migration to the cloud, it is often difficult for telecom operators to predict their data center needs. In addition, the proliferation of partnerships is pushing software beyond the boundaries of IT. Similarly, cloud platform providers bear a large amount of IT workload. The resulting uncertainty about their future data center requirements means that telecom operators need flexible data center capacity, which is easier to obtain if they rent it when and where they need it instead of owning the infrastructure.
In the past period of time, some telecom operators, especially in Europe and the United States, have successfully sold their data center business, so it is also believed that most operators can benefit from such a divestiture.
