The biggest professional data center in China recently opened its doors in the Chinese capital, Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.

Centrin Data Systems' data center in Beijing offers a series of services, including disaster backup, hosting of production and operation centers and continuous business management. It mainly targets clients in the banking, insurance, securities and public service sectors.

Taikang Life Insurance Company and China Construction Bank have become the data center's first customers, the report said.

Located in Beijing's Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, the data center occupies 66,700 square meters and meets the highest international Tier IV standard for constructed facilities.

The information security and disaster backup service businesses in China have huge potential, because few domestic companies outsource their data centers to third-party IT service providers, the article quoted industry experts as saying.

As a specialized IT outsourcing service provider, Centrin Data Systems is also building a second high-class data center in Yantai in Shandong Province, which will serve as the disaster backup data center for eastern China.

(CRI June 30, 2008)