NEC Corporation has announced that NTT Com Asia Limited (NTT CA), a Hong Kong based subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), will deploy NEC's Express5800/ECO CENTER in order to reduce the energy consumption of its new Hong Kong data center. The facility was officially opened at the end of March.

NTT CA offers a full range of services, not only for local enterprises, but for companies operating in Asia as well. During April, NTT CA plans to roll out new Virtual Office Hosting Services, built on a solid foundation of NEC's ECO CENTER, and provide its Asian customers with secure access to virtualized server resources at any time or any location.

The energy saving server, customized for use in NTT CA's Hong Kong data center, contains 30 servers, or 120 cores, and supports virtualization software, including VMware(R) ESX 3.5, and realizes a substantial reduction in power consumption by optimally allocating application tasks according to operational loads.

While striving to further reduce the power consumption in its data center, NTT CA hopes to provide new service offerings using virtualization technologies. Based on NEC's experience and expertise in developing energy saving and virtualization technologies, ECO CENTER is the perfect solution to accommodate customer needs.

NEC aims to capitalize on its success in Hong Kong by marketing ECO CENTER worldwide, and seeking to achieve a sales goal of 500 units over the coming three years.