Portugal Telecom Offers IT Infrastructure
for Sale
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (Portugal Telecom, also known as PT) is a Portugal-based holding
company providing telecommunications and information technology services in Portugal, Brazil,
Angola, Macao, and Namibia. The company serves more than 100 million business and
residential customers worldwide and generates 58 percent of its revenue outside Portugal. The
global telecommunications industry is unusually fast-changing and competitive, due to the end of
state-owned or monopoly enterprises and the emergence of new services, including mobile
phones, the Internet, and digital television.
PT today provides a range of telecommunications and multimedia services, including fixed line
and mobile telephone services; television (TV) distribution; Internet Service Provider (ISP)
services; and data transmission. These services are delivered primarily over digital networks and
are very information technology intensive. Portugal Telecom has been able to leverage its
technology expertise to provide information technology (IT) systems and services to other
companies of all sizes.
Portugal Telecom’s newest data center is in the mountain city of Covilhã, Portugal, where it can
take advantage of “free cooling” from Covilhã’s often-chilly mountain air 99 percent of the time,
thereby reducing energy usage. The Covilhã center opened in September 2013, and combines
progressive architecture, sustainability and leading-edge information technology. The entire
project, once complete, will feature four block-like data center structures spanning 75,500 square
meters, equivalent to about 800,000 square feet. The PT facility is built to have minimum impact
on the environment and features a rain water collection system (which forms a moat around the
data center building) and a garden with more than 600 trees. Large numbers of solar panels
around the facility are an additional source of clean energy.
The center boasts a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of just 1.25, compared to an industry
average of 1.88, making it among the most energy-efficient data centers in the world. (PUE is a
metric for determining the energy efficiency of a data center and is calculated by dividing the
total amount of power consumed by a data center by the amount of power used to run the
computer infrastructure within it. The closer PUE approaches 1.0, the greater the overall energy
efficiency. ) When completely built out, the Covilhã data center will be the largest in the country
and one of the largest in the world, capable of hosting 56,000 servers. The Covilhã data center is
expected to achieve an annual availability of 99.98 percent.
PT management estimates that just one-sixth of the Covilhã data center’s eventual capacity will
be required for domestic needs. The rest will provide cloud-based applications and services to
other countries, including Brazil and African nations, enabling the company to expand its
services across the globe. The Covilhã data center and six other domestic data centers run cloudbased information technology services for other companies known as SmartCloudPT. These
cloud services include cloud storage and file synchronization services, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Companies who subscribe
to SmartCloudPT pay only for the services they actually use. PT and Oracle are now working on
incorporating Oracle software applications into SmartCloudPT. Customers need only to register
at the SmartCloud PT Web site and log in to purchase the available services that they need,
which are billed in the customers’ PT invoice, together with other PT services.
PT claims the benefits of its cloud services include having the information protected in the
country’s largest data center network, the speed and reliability that customers’ businesses need,
access to PT’s cutting-edge technology, and having certified security, advantages that only PT
can provide. And because of its energy savings, PT estimates it can price its services 34 percent
lower than the average price for premium data centers in Europe. For PT, green computing is
good for business.

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