ASEAN Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

This document provides a comprehensive background of ASEAN countries' (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) data center market dynamics from the end user perspective that enables vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully and to better identify customer requirements. Following the economic crisis, IT investments have picked up in 2010 in the Asia Pac ASEAN region, and Forrester expects the situation to improve further in 2011. More specifically, investments in IT infrastructure and data centers in particular have been relatively dynamic in 2010 and should somewhat give way to an integration and consolidation phase in 2011. The report also focuses on outsourcing, smart cooling, disaster recovery projects, virtualization market, and cloud computing with the ASEAN region.