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 center for HP's Global IT organization, a state-of-the-art next generation data center for outsourcing services customers, a professional center, and a call center to support HP's enterprise business customers worldwide.

He said that the global IT application development center adds to HP's existing internal network of centers in China, Costa Rica, India and Mexico.