The first cloud computing monitoring center in South Korea was opened by SK Telecom this week which hopes to encourage companies to the Cloud with new innovations in cloud security and data protection.

SK Telecom has set up 15 monitoring screens to watch over its cloud systems and an alarm which rings at the first sign of a compromise.

According to the South Korea Times, the center is situated in SK Telekom’s Cloud Data Center in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, where 300 servers and storage systems are dedicated to enterprise cloud computing.

SK Telekom launched its T Cloud Biz security service on June 19 and plans to expand its business from 40 staff to 100 by the end of the year.

It uses Juniper Networks vGW Gateway and SRX Series Service Gateways to provide security across its physical and virtual networks for an automated approach to monitoring and delivering the Cloud.

The vGW security solution provides visibility into the virtual machine and can isolate virtual machines in multi-tenant environments while SRX provides zone-based segregation at the data center perimeter.

In July 2011, SK Telecom introduced its Long Term Evolution (LTE) service and its original T Cloud for business-to-business customers optimized for the 4G network, which as of April covered the entire country.