Data Center Locations: Asia Pacific
Singapore
Singapore is fast emerging as a regional and global hub for cloud services, according to David Wirt, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Managed Services for Tata Communications
Singapore — a country made for business
With its solid infrastructure, stable government, strong intellectual property laws and low risk of natural disasters, Singapore is becoming one of the best locations for hosting data center and cloud computing services in the world. It is well regarded as the best gateway into the Asia Pacific region with many regional headquarters of Fortune 500 companies based in the country. This success has been put down to Singapore’s efforts in building a skilled workforce with professional credentials; establishing standards for carrier-class facilities; and ensuring resilience in the business supply chain.
Through the work of various government agencies, Singapore has a healthy number of professionals certified in critical data center skills including security, business continuity and disaster recovery.
It is also ranked as one of the most network ready and most competitive IT markets in Asia. And it has established data center standards to ensure that service provider facilities are up to scratch on a global scale. The ISO/IEC 24762 BC/DR (business continuity/disaster recovery) standard for service provider facilities was first drafted as the Singapore Standard SS507. The latter standard was launched by Singapore in 2004 and become an ISO standard in 2008.
Besides ensuring resilience at the data center facility level, Singapore has built an extremely high level of national business resilience against unforeseen circumstances. After the
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) crisis in 2003, which had a significant impact on businesses globally, the Singapore government took concrete steps to strengthen corporate and national resilience.
To achieve that, Singapore’s government drafted a Technical Reference (TR) standard for business continuity management — called TR19. This is designed to help businesses respond more effectively to major disasters such as SARS and terrorist attacks. The standard spells out guidelines needed by businesses to keep critical functions including business processes, human resources and infrastructure operational during a disaster.
Above all, Singapore is now recognized as one of the easiest places to do business in the world with the best protection of intellectual property in Asia making it a focal point for high-growth knowledge-based sectors including technology companies and cloud-based services.
The Singapore government has been engaging the media and entertainment segment aggressively as the next generation nationwide broadband network will be commissioned shortly. Overall, Singapore has executed well on its vision to make itself a hub for data center and cloud services and continues to lead the APAC region, if not the
world, in
setting up a holistic infrastructure for data center services. n
Reasons for
establishing a data center in Singapore
1. Strategic location – Singapore
is the hub/gateway into South East Asia and some of the fastest growing economies in the world.
2. Solid infrastructure – in terms of communications, power, water and logistics as well as skilled labour with low risk profile as it falls outside volcanic and earthquake zones.
3. Stable government and strong economy – Singapore’s economy attracts many global and regional HQs, making the country a hub for both communications and business.
4. Key initiatives – the local government and the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) have taken efforts to make Singapore an IT hub and knowledge-driven economy.
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