Taiwan faces up to Open Compute Project's promise
Taiwan's Cloud Computing Association will be establishing a local chapter of the Open Compute Project to draw more local hardware makers to support Facebook's vision of an open data center.
Taiwan's Cloud Computing Association will be establishing a local chapter of the Open Compute Project to draw more local hardware makers to support Facebook's vision of an open data center.
Destinations such as Singapore, Malaysia or Hong Kong need to seize the opportunity of being deemed an acceptable data transfer partner with the European Union in order to get ahead of the competition.
ZDNet's directory of data center vendors in Asia has market, product and contact information for companies that provide data center services.
Public cloud services are increasingly attractive for companies in the region, but many will continue wanting to own or manage their data centers instead of relying on third-party operators.
Communications provider's new facility will help it better serve the data center and connectivity needs of the Asia-Pacific region.
Conventional ways of distributing power to data centers via utility grids are no longer enough to provide the required energy to support ongoing IT trends such as smarter mobile devices and information-hungry apps.
Companies and operators will enjoy streamlined tax and regulatory processes should the Southeast Asian markets collectively create a datacenter hub, but much work still to be done to see this become reality.
We examine which markets in Asia are emerging as the next wave of datacenter hotspots, and identify key design factors that go into building efficient, sustainable data centers.
Datacenter infrastructure outlay will reach US$128 billion in 2012 and grow 5 percent per annum to 2016, spurred on by Asia's businesses investing heavily in building resilient infrastructure, study shows.