BroadGroup Sees Strong Growth for Asia Data Centre Market

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 (Bernama) -- BroadGroup, an international event and consulting group, has predicted a strong growth for Asia data centre market with growth in Malaysia could be as high as 36 per cent. In a statement here Monday, it said, the market in Asia continued to expand with growth in capacity and power availability across all countries over the next three years. "Outsourcing to third-party data centres by companies local to the region is also expected to be sustained. Around 70 hyperscale data centres are planned for deployment in Asia over the next three years," it said. BroadGroup Chairman, Philip Low, said this year would herald large-scale Internet of Things deployments and the need for new edge computing strategies. "Asia has the opportunity to build on increased information technology deployment by local and international enterprises making it incredibly timely to bring the first-ever Datacloud event here to debate the drivers and challenges now afforded in the region," he said. Meanwhile, Omer M. Wilson, Senior Director of Marketing, APAC at Digital Realty Data Centres, said Asia-Pacific was at the forefront of the digital economy. "Naturally, the need for data centres is surging. "We expect Asia to continue registering high growth in the colocation market as companies from across the region (and also those entering from other parts of the world) look to agile and flexible data centre solutions that can help them scale up and enable their digital transformations," he said. -- BERNAMA