Chin said in recent years, Malaysian data centre market was on an upward trajectory, largely fuelled by local and international providers. This was due to Malaysia’s ‘lower base” as compared to other mature markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
He said Malaysia’s data centres with enhanced data speeds serve end-consumers in other regional densely populated cities and it has also seen increase in local demand. He is confident that our local ecosystem has the expertise and technologies to build hyperscale data centres to challenge competition from other markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore.Sharing the same sentiment is PIKOM chairman Danny Lee.
From the announcement by the government, TM is the only local company earmarked for the initiative. He said that we should not forget other local players which have successfully built up this market for Malaysia and our country is known as an ideal location for business continuity and disaster recovery.
“Thanks to efforts from our local data centre providers, Malaysia is also increasingly becoming a regional hub for various industries such as manufacturing, logistics and big data analytics. As more organisations embark on investing in cloud systems, the need for more local data centres is set to rise – and we expect the market in years ahead to be exponential,” he added.