From left: Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, MDeC CEO; Y.B Fadillah Yusof, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation; Randy Mott, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hewlett-Packard; YAB Dato’ Seri Najib Razak, Deputy Prime Minister; Eric Ikeda, Director HP Multimedia Cyberjaya and YB Datuk Maximus Ongkili Johnity, Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 OCTOBER 2008 - Technology giant HP has announced plans for a 60-acre sustainable campus in Malaysia’s Cyberjaya, which will be the largest facility of its kind in the world.
According to government agency Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) chief executive officer, Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali, the new facility is the single largest investment by a multi-national technology company in Malaysia and is expected to employ as many as 4,000 knowledge base workers in the next 10 years.
Badlisham said HP is working closely with MDeC to set world-class standards for information infrastructure. “The investment by a large multi-national company such as HP signals a strong commitment to our country and will bring a major economic and employment boost.”
Unique Functions
HP executive vice president and chief information officer, Randy Mott, said the campus would host multiple core functions in one integrated location, including an internal global application development centre for HP’s Global IT organisation, a state-of-the-art next generation data centre for outsourcing services customers, a professional center, and a call centre to support HP’s enterprise business customers worldwide.
He said that the global IT application development centre adds to HP’s existing internal network of centres in China, Costa Rica, India and Mexico.
In addition, the HP Cyberjaya campus – expected to be ready by early 2010 - would feature two rooms that include HP’s Halo Telepresence Solutions to allow a lifelike, dynamic, real-time video collaboration environment, to boost business performance, and reduce carbon emissions by cutting travel costs.
Mott added, “We’re pleased to partner with MDeC and the Malaysian Government on this initiative. For HP, Cyberjaya dramatically expands our presence in this fast-growing region, and offers us a developed infrastructure, strategic location, and multi-lingual talent pool.”
