South Korea’s IT services company, SK Holdings C&C, announced on Dec. 10 that it has recently signed an agreement with IBM at SK u-Tower in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, to jointly build a cloud center. Ten officials from the two companies, including SK Holdings C&C President Park Jung-ho, IBM Asia Pacific General Manager Randy Walker and IBM Korea General Manager Jeffrey Rhoda, attended the signing ceremony.
Under the agreement, the two companies will build the cloud center in the Pangyo campus where SK C&C’s R&D center is located using IBM’s SoftLayer public cloud, and aim to start operations next year.
SK Holdings C&C is planning to provide cloud services with its strengths as an IT services provider. In order for customers in all industries to freely and rapidly expand new IT services, the company will offer cloud-based Big Data and IoT platforms, and industrial specialization solutions and services.
The company will also provide its development platform NEXCORE, an ICT convergence solution platform that includes Big Data and convergence security, and a specialized financial IT service platform in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.
Also, the “managed service” will generally manage the overall cloud system for customers, analyze Big Data, monitor and manage problems 24 hours a day on customers’ network systems, and allocate and manage cloud infrastructure resources.
In addition, SK Holdings C&C will offer “small & mid-size companies specialized cloud market place” that directly supports the development and sale of cloud-based IT solutions for smaller companies, including startups.
SK Holdings C&C President Park Jung-ho said, “Using both IBM’s IaaS and SK Holdings C&C’s SaaS and PaaS, our customers will be able to implement their systems and services based on the same cloud anywhere around the world quickly and without any initial costs.”