Mad Rush For Data Centers Signals Coming-of-Age For Cloud Computing

Grazed from CXOToday. Author: Muqbil Ahmar.

On June 28, Internet services major Amazon launched its first set of data centers in India, saying that it is spending ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to set up data centers in the country. “The data center will help accelerate growth,” said Shane Owenby, managing director-APAC, AWS in an interview. In India, Microsoft by now has three data centers, IBM has two, whereas many others such as Japan’s NTT also have big data center operations in the country. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group too is reportedly planning to announce its India entry with a data center.

India is not unique to this as these days the Asia-pacific region has become a favourite destination for setting up of data centers. According to APAC Reach, a marketing and research company focused on assisting expansion throughout the Asia Pacific region, has reported a marked increase in European clients interested in data center investments in the area following the UK Brexit referendum…

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom company, has opened the doors to its approx. £309 million data center facility, just outside of the capital Taipei. Similarly, Deskera, a leading Cloud software provider in South-East Asia, has announced spending USD 50 million over the next three years to build a wholly owned Cloud data center in Singapore. The company plans to convert the data center into one of the biggest software as a service (SaaS) centers in South-East Asia…

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