Security Is Opportunity in the APAC Data Center Market

These services are essential, as the cyberthreat landscape is becoming increasingly sophisticated and dangerous. Threats like ransomware, phishing, internal bad actors and botnet attacks will not go away. Rather, they will continue to proliferate and disrupt global business operations throughout 2017 and beyond. We can also anticipate that new types of threats will arise that will make secure data center operations all the more mission-critical.

To global data center providers, however, these are not challenges so much as they are opportunities for growth. Businesses should be looking eastto data center providers that can ensure operational stability and uptime.

Enterprise Security in Asia-Last year, Microsoft Asia named the APAC region as being “especially vulnerable” to malware, with emerging markets at the highest risk for intrusions. Out of the top five locations across the globe where malware was the biggest threat, four came from the APAC region, including Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Looking beyond the nuisance of cyberthreats, enterprise security breaches can also have major economic consequences. After all, network downtime caused by nefarious parties can have major financial consequences, particularly for entities storing mission-critical data,such as the banking, healthcare and government sectors. Additionally, organizations that suffer from operationally inefficient networks can hardly be considered secure.

We can also look at enterprise security as being a critical determining factor in the stability of the larger financial ecosystem. Consider a recent World Bank report that stresses that economic growth within the APAC region is still at significant risk due to financial and fiscal vulnerabilities as well as from infrastructure gaps. In many ways, the internet is now the backbone of the APAC economy, and so it’s in every organization’s best interest to protect their digital assets to create a stronger financial market.

As a whole, the APAC data center market will be instrumental in building a reliable and consistent digital economy, not just regionally, but globally.

All Eyes on China-It’s impossible to discuss the APAC data center industry today without mentioning China, a market is expected to grow at a CAGR of about 13 percent from 2016 to 2020.

Right now, China is receiving a great deal of attention from global enterprises and IT service providers that are looking to expand within the country. However, China also deserves more attention from international hyper-scale companies and private operators. There is a strong need within China for organizations offering secure, cutting-edge network infrastructure and reliable connections to local businesses.

Certain companies are now laying the groundwork to encourage this growth. Chayora, for example, is currently building a massive footprint of data center campuses in strategic locations across China, including Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou and in southern Jiangsu. All Chayora data center sites have fully provisioned power from grid and direct-feed renewable sources, are fiber-connected to world-class standards, including security, and are ready for data center construction and immediate connection to the domestic internet.

In new markets, optimizing the blend between understanding local regulations, laws and policies and assuming international standards is vital, however the tendency to compromise can be a very a bad decision. New developers and operators like Chayora, collaborating with the leading enterprise end-users and bridging the international to local knowledge gap will be the backbone of a more resilient, secure and assured APAC digital infrastructure environment.

Incorporated in 2011, Chayora develops large, fully-licensed data centre campuses across major cities. It is based in Hong kong.