DIGITAL Equipment Hong Kong and computer services company COL have merged their disaster recovery services under a $5 million outsourcing agreement signed last week.
The companies claim the new facility will be Hong Kong's only true multi-vendor disaster recovery service, and the only service offering Digital-based disaster recovery facilities.
The combined service will be operated around the clock at COL's 10,000 sq ft Kwun Tong Data Centre.
According to COL outsourcing manager Kevin Taylor, the new service will be fully equipped to provide disaster recovery services for Digital, IBM and Hewlett-Packard-based systems, among others.
Simultaneously to the signing of the outsourcing agreement, COL was appointed a Digital re-seller, responsible for key corporate accounts in Hong Kong, and for value-added sales to Comshare and Dun and Bradstreet customers.
'The new disaster recovery centre reflects both Digital's commitment to provide multi-vendor disaster recovery services to its customers in Asia and COL's determination to make outsourcing a major revenue source into the next century,' said COL managing director Richard Weatherstone.