Enhancing Hong Kong’s Competitiveness Through Data Centre and Cloud Computing – Trends and Policies презентация

Trends and Policies

Charles Mok
Legislative Councillor (Information Technology)

on cloud services is expected to reach more than $107 billion in 2017

center capacity than today International Data Corporation (IDC)

Largest driver of DC expansion

of space planned

Demand for data center services increasing
Occupancy rate remain high

More DC space coming along in HK

center from the trend of cloud computing?
How is the industry adapting?
What can be done to improve HK’s attractiveness as an international data center hub and stay competitive?

Key Questions

the entire population of Canada in Q3 of 2014.”
- Joe Kava, VP Data Centers, Google

competitive

Increases the need for infrastructure refresh in older data centers

more than 8 years old and are not really geared up to handle the demands of modern high density computing platforms,” - Simon Piff Associate VP of Enterprise Infrastructure research at IDC Asia Pacific to Datacenter Dynamics

to make TW the next APAC Information Operations Center, land policy
South Korea: government driven huge investment in IT industry, encourage startups
China: tech firms going global fast, Shenzhen’s initiative in Internet Finance driving DC service demand
Others: tax incentives

APAC govts race to attract DC investments

data center in Asia, investing US $1bn in total.
Singapore: $500m on a second, larger, multilevel data center to go online in 2 years
Taiwan: allocated $600m for Data Center and $66 million to increase capacity
Amazon will launch data center infrastructure for India in 2016 …What’s for Hong Kong?

build DCs in Asia
Extensive business network
Reliable energy supply
Deep pool of tech talents
Extensive and reliable network connectivity
17,000 tech and IT companies (2013)
Blooming start-ups
IP protection

liaison with Tech companies
Government driven cooperation

Varied approaches in DC facilitation

leverage on economies of scale and expand
More value-added services e.g. IaaS
Support startups and local tech firms to grow SME demand for DC services and public cloud services
Green data centers

Hong Kong can enhance its competitiveness to DC investors

Development Areas (Hung Shui Kiu, NE NT, etc.)
Conversion of industrial building: hard to meet long term demand
How much land do we need to increase DC service provision in short to medium term
Data center land supply policy and planning needed

Land Earmarked for Data Centers
Data Centre Facilitation Unit and its Thematic Portal (OGCIO)
Robust telecommunications infrastructure, Pro-Business environment, free flow of information, protection of data privacy, quality ICT professionals

policies
Operators of IDCs need predictability in policy as huge investment is involved
Cost and stability of power supply
Coordination to speed up land supply and cut red tape
Conversion of industrial buildings for co-location DCs: being adaptive
Enhance cloud computing security for critical infrastructure

firms, financial institutions and telecom operators
Staying relevant, advanced planning and better coordination
Green and environmental initiatives/facilitations
Facilitate partnerships with global players to build new facilities
Providing attractive incentive packages