NTT Communications has unveiled its webmail-based Enterprise Mail cloud service which will be delivered from a newly constructed platform in Singapore.

The company said it will be used to serve customers in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.

NTT Com said the Singapore platform will ensure it continues to offer highly reliable and competitively priced enterprise communication services for mail, scheduling, file sharing, among other services, throughout the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

It said due to Singapore’s central location in the region, APAC enterprises can enjoy low-latency cloud mail functions even when viewing, editing or sharing large files.

Kiyoshi Matsumoto, director of the cloud and managed services at NTT Singapore, said Singapore’s relatively low risk of natural disasters means companies can incorporate Enterprise Mail in their disaster-recovery initiatives and to strengthen business continuity.

Matsumoto highlighted the possibility for customers to store their information in both Singapore and Japan.

“In the event of an outage in the email system, customers can still conduct business-as-usual through accessing the other mail infrastructure in the non-affected country,” Matsumoto said.

Singapore is the hub of NTT Com’s international broadband networks and gateway to the APAC region, and is hence ideal for providing stable ICT services to customers in the APAC region.

The Enterprise Mail service adopts the same design infrastructure as the implementation in Japan, Matsumoto said, and is built on NTT Com’s Enterprise Cloud with a full-layer virtual private cloud that includes computing resources, security and VPN connection.

The service incorporates data federation technology to provide customers with easy access and management of records and data in one single global address book through a simplified user interface.

Availability in other APAC markets, as well as launches the US and Europe are part of NTT Com’s plans, though no concrete dates have been set as yet for international launch.

Matsumoto said the company is still in the midst of conducting market research to bring Enterprise Mail to other regions.