Issue 2, February 2009
FOCUS NEWS EMERGING MARKETS & ASIA PACIFIC
RUSSIAN IT MARKET MAY AVOID WORST OF FINANCIAL CRISIS
The Russian and central European data center market may avoid the worst impact of the financial crisis in the short term as high-end servers continue to be purchased by oil and gas, telecoms and construction companies.
Stefania Lorenz, director of hardware and systems for the CEMA region at analyst IDC, said: “Here in the region, mainframes will always be sold and there will continue to be takeup for a while. Taking a look
INDIA
AT&T has opened its first data center in Bangalore. The company is targeting the growing demand from multinational customers in India for online data centers with highly resilient facilities.
The facility is part of AT&T’s previously announced US$1bn planned global network and portfolio investment. “The new centers are built to the same rigid specifications consistent with AT&T’s other global data centers and are enabled with services that proactively manage customers’ hosting solutions for predictable application performance. They are protected from intrusion and failure with the same multilayered security, failsafe redundancy, diversity measures, and rapid response recovery measures built into each AT&T data center,” said Gopi Gopinath, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Global Network Services India.
“The new Bangalore center underscores AT&T’s commitment to the rapidly expanding telecommunications sector in India and highlights the rapidly growing demand in this market.
at the x86 end of the market, it improved by 10% in Q3 2008, but there will be a decline in Q4 2008 and in the first quarter of 2009. If Russia has a decline – and Russia is the largest market in the region – it will have an impact on the whole region. If you’re talking purely on x86, because of the financial decline, you can expect Q4 2008 to be the worse ever,” said Lorenz.
“There is clearly constriction across large industries. Everything is suspended and
With the further enhancement of our hosting facilities in the Asia Pacific region, AT&T will be able to support multinational customers in India who turn to AT&T for integrated hosting and network solutions, allowing them to focus on running their businesses.”
The new center is directly connected to AT&T’s global MPLS backbone. The addition of the Bangalore facility is AT&T’s latest milestone in expanding its hosting footprint in India and Asia. AT&T recently announced availability of its next-generation utility computing service for business customers in Asia through the opening of the first ‘super IDC’ in Singapore.
AUSTRALIA
Australian bank Westpac will spend A$338m on IT as it integrates with St George Bank in a four-year project that may include data center consolidation. The bank has set an end of March 2009 deadline for completing its strategy for IT integration, with a view to commencing the programme in September.
Ex-Commbank CIO Bob
there are huge problems in the Russian market at the moment. But hopefully they will pick up at the end of Q2 2009.
“At the high end – more than $500,000 – this type of project is not going to be stopped. The decision on the large systems was done a while ago,” said Lorenz. “We’ll see some short-term decline, but we have forecasted market growth over the next five years and expect this to happen as so much IT infrastructure needs to be updated.”
McKinnon will lead the integration. The bank has a 10- year IT services deal with IBM, which is due to expire in 2010.
SINGAPORE
Fujitsu Asia opened its third data center in Singapore. The $15m site is the fourth in the region. Masaki Kajiyama, president of Fujitsu Asia, said the company saw Singapore as a global hub.
EMERSON
Emerson Network Power has appointed Stephen Liang as president of the Asia Pacific business.
Liang, who led Emerson Network Power in China for the past eight years, will take on the additional role of president, Emerson Network Power Systems, Asia.
The systems business incorporates all of Network Power’s activities in the region, including the Liebert Energy Systems, Emerson Network Power China Co Ltd (formerly Avansys), and ASCO Power Technologies businesses. He takes over from Ajeet Singh, who left Emerson after 27 years working with the company.
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Big projects in Russia will carry on HONG KONG
Hong Kong’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer awarded data center managed services and IT service contracts to three suppliers. Three standing offer agreements (SOAs) were awarded to Hewlett-Packard HK SAR, Jardine OneSolution (HK) and PCCW Solutions. The seven- year contracts include service level agreements on the reduction in the carbon emission and power consumption of government data centers by increasing the shared use of computing resources among systems that are now dispersed in different government departments.
Government chief information officer Jeremy Godfrey, said: “As part of the government’s IT outsourcing strategy, the SOA- DCS will enable the government to leverage market capabilities of advanced technology. This arrangement will also facilitate the government to optimise investment in capital and labour in data center operations, enjoy procurement efficiency, and enhance cost-effectiveness in the management of data center services.”
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