Frost & Sullivan: Political turmoil leads to explosive growth in data center business in Thailand

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Political turmoil spurs explosive growth in data centre business: Research

BANGKOK: -- The Nation Data centre service providers in Thailand experienced unforeseen business growth over the year, thanks to the political crisis, according to Frost & Sullivan's research.

"The industry had a strong year of growth in 2013. The overall industry growth rate was approximately 21 per cent compared to the year earlier with total revenue over Bt1.7 billion. Despite recent political turmoil and ongoing economic downturn, Thai enterprises, both from public and private sector, turned their attention to strengthening their data centre. Many began to include data center investment in their business continuity planning agenda," said Teera Kanokkanjanarat, senior ICT industry analyst, Frost & Sullivan/

Frost & Sullivan's forecast shows that Thailand's data centre industry will still enjoy strong overall growth of more than 15 per cent in 2014. The 3 key driving factors for growth are the following: cloud computing adoption, rising demand in Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution, and increasing demand of connectivity within ASEAN region.

"Although cloud computing technology has been a widely known trend in Thailand for many years, but prior to 2013, most enterprises were still in learning and trial period for cloud computing adoption. As cloud computing in Thailand has gained maturity and trust, the rate of adoption has also risen rapidly thereafter. Many data center service provider began offering cloud computing solution either as Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Managed Cloud Hosting. The rising popularity ranged from public cloud to private cloud for enterprises," Teera said.

He noted that Disaster Recovery (DR) Site has also been another area of interest since the event of big flood in Bangkok.

In 2013, Thailand witnessed the shutdown of a few major shutdowns of data centre sites due to political movement.

"Enterprises in both public and private sectors have begun looking for disaster recovery solution in these unforeseeable events. DR-Site and solution has then become opportunity for data center providers. Major data center providers has begun offering DR-site as complementary service for its customers or as a bundled package for new prospect," he said.


-- The Nation 2014-02-05

[chainarong]

Both the Democrats and the PTP will probably opt for the cloud disaster recovery solution, seeing as both have handled the situation that Thailand now finds its self in pretty much like a disaster area , Suthep will probably go for the Rusty gates designed, Help solution , although come to think of it , there are plenty on both sides that need Help , especially in the mind department the only other solution is the ice pac variety that the Expats so fondly drink , so take ya pick..

[Costas2008]

Without the bad, there would be no good.

Without the sad, there would be no happy.

Without the pain, there would be no joy.

Without the hate, there would be no love.

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

After the 2010 redshirt protests, my company moved its data center to a bunker in Austin, Texas. Nothing is safe in Thailand.

[Pib]

I expect a lot of financial transactions transferring money "out of Thailand" also helped fuel the data center growth.

[noitom]

Can you begin to imagine the security and disaster backup and recovery risk in Thailand? Just scan the news and see the breaches and hacks in advanced technology countries and sophisticated users like the US and China and project the dire possibilities of security breaches of data and technology in Thailand. Mind boggling risk in Thailand.

[englishoak]

Not going to be the hub of data centres anytime soon then yathink ?