Why is the IDC market in Southeast Asia developing rapidly? The Belt and Road Initiative promotes the export of IDC companies in China

In recent years, the global IDC market is in a stage of rapid development. According to China IDC Circle Kezhi Consulting released the “2017-2018 China IDC Industry Research Report”, the global IDC market reached US$53.5 billion in 2017, with a growth rate of 17.9%.

The global IDC market structure has taken shape, and both domestic and overseas service providers are looking for new business opportunities in fast-growing regions.

European business growth slows down M&A has become the mainstream of the industry

From the current market total analysis, the United States and Europe account for more than 50% of the global IDC market.

With the rapid development of cloud computing and big data, the development of the data center industry has been driven. At the same time, the development speed of data centers in Europe began to slow down gradually, and the main forms of development were M&A and transactions.

According to IDC reporters, the 2017 IDC industry M&A event is more than the sum of the previous two years, and this trend will continue in the next few years. In addition, the global IDC service provider investment will continue to increase. In 2017, the global IDC investment scale exceeded 220 billion, including technology-driven power, market integration, and market investment.

Why is the IDC market in Southeast Asia developing rapidly?

As we all know, the IDC industry in the Asia-Pacific region has developed rapidly in recent years, and the Asian region has become the focus of data center development. Since 2014, technology-driven innovation has enabled the rapid development of various emerging technology fields, which has led to a significant increase in data storage scale, computing power and network traffic. This is also an important reason for the acceleration of this new generation technology in the Asia-Pacific region.

Compared with European and American countries, the Asia-Pacific region is a gathering place for developing countries. The cost of developing IDC business will be greatly reduced mainly reflected in personnel costs, electricity costs, and land costs. Second, the support of national policies, along with China's "One Belt, One Road" The implementation of the policy has accelerated the layout of China's Internet companies to the neighboring countries. At the same time, the business will generate a large amount of data after going out to sea, which is also a reason to accelerate the rapid development of the IDC industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Finally, IDC industry development has high requirements for the network. The Asia-Pacific region has abundantspecial cables and on-the-road optical fibers, which can provide the network required for IDC services, and is currently leading the 5G development in the Asia-Pacific region.

At the 2018 Asia Pacific Data Center Summit, Indosat Singapore Pte.Ltd Jessie YanYang said that Singapore, as an important node of international network connection, has become the key to the development of the IDC industry in the Asia Pacific region. In order to ensure the stability and redundancy of international exports, Indosat is in India and Singapore. Sixspecial cables were built to ensure the operation of international business.

JessieYanYang pointed out that the demand for data centers in Indonesia has reached an annual growth rate of more than 20%. Indosat invested in more than 20 computer rooms in Indonesia last year, covering all current mainstream cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta and Bali. At present, there are four computer rooms in Indosat in Jakarta. There are two reasons for this. The first point is that Indonesia is a country with frequent earthquakes. The address environment in Jakarta is relatively good. Second, related to government policies, the Indonesian government issued a bank policy on the financial system many years ago. The financial system has two nodes, the main node and the disaster preparedness node in Indonesia. At present, all of Indonesia's large banks and financial systems are stored in the disaster preparedness center in Jakarta.

Subsequently, Huang Chao, general manager of China IDC Circle, shared the data center market situation in 2017. He said that the global IDC market in 2015 was 53.47 billion, with a growth rate of 18.3%. The Asian region continued to lead in all regions, with an overall growth rate of more than 30%, including IDC market growth represented by China, India and Southeast Asian countries. The most significant; secondly, from the US market, the main feature of the US market is mergers and acquisitions. In 2017, there were nearly 20 billion mergers and acquisitions in the US market.

"One Belt, One Road" Policy Promotes China's IDC Enterprises to Go Out

With the rapid implementation of China's "One Belt, One Road" policy, Chinese enterprises have ushered in a broader market space and development opportunities for the international market. At the same time, international giants are already eager to face the huge domestic market.

Bingyan Wang, deputy director of the Shenzhen Economic and Trade Information Committee, said at the 2018 Asia Pacific Data Center Summit that in order to implement the national big data strategy and seize the important opportunities of cloud computing and big data development, Shenzhen will carry out work in the following three aspects: It is actively implementing the network power and Internet + strategy, focusing on industrial cross-border and integrated intelligent development, accelerating the construction of a ubiquitous and efficient information network, promoting the development of the information core industry, and creating a convergence and symbiosis of the new generation of information technology and the Internet industry. Information industry clusters; second, innovative big data mining analysis and application, improve the level of social governance refinement, promote the popularization of people's livelihood services, and achieve refined urban management; third, strengthen cooperation between industry, universities and research institutes, encourage university research institutions and enterprises to jointly cultivate Cloud computing, big data related talents, strengthen the effective connection between school education and industrial development.

Haibo Hu, senior engineer of the China Institute of Industry and Planning, said that the IDC market in China has developed rapidly and has become the most dynamic region in the world.

The laws and regulations involved in China's cloud service and data center access include the following parts: First, the Telecommunications Regulations of the People's Republic of China and the Measures for the Administration of Telecom Business Licenses, requiring cloud services to operate under license; second, market access In the technical requirements and market service specifications, No. 552 in 2012 and No. 32 in 2017, the requirements for cleanup and rectification; third, cloud services, including the “Notice on regulating the operation of cloud service market” and “Regulations on Cloud Service Promotion Industry Health Development Notice, etc.

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Secondly, in view of the route of China's IDC enterprises and the advantages of relevant countries, Chen Zhen from the British RETN company believes that China's "One Belt, One Road" policy has accelerated the rapid sea-going of IDC enterprises in China, including routes from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus to Europe. Russia is adjacent to China and is the main overseas region for the development of IDC business in China. Among them, because Russia is sparsely populated, it is a large-scale land development for data centers. Secondly, Russia is very suitable for climate, which reduces the operation and maintenance costs of data center air-conditioning systems.

Review

With the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence industries, data centers will continue to grow in the future, and with the increasing demand for data storage and processing, data centers are moving toward large-scale and centralized development. China has increased the regulation and rectification of the IDC industry. The settlement of foreign enterprises in China is bound to become a development point in the future. In the future, it will be settled in China, and we will continue to pay attention to it.

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