Darren Webb is the Managing Director and SVP of DSCG Data Centres in Singapore. DCSG is a privately held data centre, providing software defined services to global enterprise clients, from the US, Europe and Asia. DCSG work with some of the largest users of data centre..

After the inaugural Malaysian Cloud & Data Centre Convention in November 2018, the April 2019 version was delivered. With only 5 months after the first convention, was this too soon? Was this going to deliver equal to or better than the first?

In 2018, we saw significant developments in the data centre industry in Malaysia as well as the Southeast Asian region. But technology never stands still.

The Vietnam conflict, known as the Second Indochina War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 Since then, Vietnam has grown leaps and bounds, surging forward at a very fast rate in recent years.

IDC predicts that 21% of Malaysia’s GDP is expected to be digitised by 2022. This means that growth in every industry will be boosted by digitally enabled offerings, operations and relationships.

As companies continue to spend and invest on technology, the global public cloud services market is one sector that is expected to see spending of over $200 billion according to Gartner. The Southeast Asian region, which is seeing accelerated growth in the digital economy, is at the forefront of this.

The Vietnam government has invested heavily into upgrading the nation’s IT infrastructure to make this happen and offer a number of favourable conditions and tax incentives to attract more companies to build their data centres in Vietnam.

It’s a wrap! KL puts a wrap on 2018 with the inaugural all inclusive Malaysian Cloud & Data Centre Convention. The convention was held at The Summit 1, The Vertical at Connexion Conference & Event Centre in Bangsar South. What a cracking event to finish off the year!

Malaysia is moving forward through many initiatives, some by government and some
through the corporate sector, in its drive to be a digital HUB within ASEAN. And there are a
number of local and regional innovations driving Malaysia in this direction.
Telecommunications is one of those areas driving development.

ASEAN sees massive growth in breaking technology and data centre cloud / colocation centres. A strong trend across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea and so forth has emerged. Malaysia is no different experiencing a dramatic change in data centre development and expansion over the last 10 to 15 years with the likes of Alibaba Cloud entering the Malaysia market.
There has been a notable big trend over the past five to fifteen years, with more than 50% of enterprises building next-generation data centres in Malaysia. As such older facilities are continually being re-evaluated.