“Data is competitiveness” Global IT corporations to grasp cloud leadership
Lee Gyung Tak | kt87@ | 2017-11-07 09:52:38
The world`s cloud market is dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft (MS), with latecomers like Google and Alibaba expanding their data centers around the world. Securing the data center is a prerequisite for securing the IaaS (service-oriented infrastructure) competitiveness, which is the most basic level of cloud services.
Meanwhile, Google will launch its first cloud data center (CDC) service in Mumbai, India, this month, according to industry sources. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Platform customers have leveraged the CDC infrastructure in Singapore, which allows Google customers to reduce their latency by 20 to 90 %, Google said.
Google`s competitor, Microsoft, has set up a data center in three cities in Chennai, Pune and Mumbai in 2015, and AWS launched its service in two data centers in Mumbai last year.
According to market researcher Gartner, the market for public cloud in India is expected to grow steadily from USD 1.26 billion last year (USD 1.4 trillion) to USD 3.52 billion (USD 4 trillion) by 2020.
According to Gartner`s latest announcement, the global public cloud IaaS market last year was AWS with 44.2%, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba and Google with 7.1%, 3% and 2.3%, respectively.
AWS currently operates 44 "Cloud Availability Zones" in 16 regional "Regions (regional units covering multiple data centers)" in the world. In the future, it will add six regions and 17 available zones to Bahrain, China, France, Hong Kong and Sweden, and plan to build a second government cloud region in the United States. Microsoft is running a total of 36 data centers, including South Korea, with the goal of building six more in South Africa, France and Australia.
Alibaba, on the other hand, which accounts for nearly half of the Chinese cloud market and is targeting the global market, also builds CDC and launches services in Malaysia this month. Alibaba has been active in overseas markets since last year and operates 15 data centers in China, Japan, USA, Singapore, Middle East and Australia.
"Cloud companies worldwide are building data centers around the world to ensure availability and service speed," said Song Joon-hwa, head of the Korea IT Services Industry Association. "Data centers are more advantageous in terms of service availability, "The number of data centers we have can soon be seen as cloud competitiveness."
Domestic companies are also building overseas data centers among them. KT built CDC in Los Angeles for the first time in Korea last year. NBP (Naver Business Platform) plans to open and expand its German data center in September, following Singapore, USA, Hong Kong and Japan. Among them, there is a concern that domestic companies cannot catch up with the competitiveness of foreign companies.
Kim Young-hoon, vice chairman of the Korea Cloud Industry Association, said, "Domestic companies have gaps in terms of capital capabilities with global companies, but they need more bold and aggressive investment because data centers are at the core of cloud service competitiveness. It`s not too late, as the market will get bigger, and we`ll have to take the opportunity now. "
By Lee Gyung Tak kt87@
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Meanwhile, Google will launch its first cloud data center (CDC) service in Mumbai, India, this month, according to industry sources. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Platform customers have leveraged the CDC infrastructure in Singapore, which allows Google customers to reduce their latency by 20 to 90 %, Google said.
Google`s competitor, Microsoft, has set up a data center in three cities in Chennai, Pune and Mumbai in 2015, and AWS launched its service in two data centers in Mumbai last year.
According to market researcher Gartner, the market for public cloud in India is expected to grow steadily from USD 1.26 billion last year (USD 1.4 trillion) to USD 3.52 billion (USD 4 trillion) by 2020.
According to Gartner`s latest announcement, the global public cloud IaaS market last year was AWS with 44.2%, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba and Google with 7.1%, 3% and 2.3%, respectively.
AWS currently operates 44 "Cloud Availability Zones" in 16 regional "Regions (regional units covering multiple data centers)" in the world. In the future, it will add six regions and 17 available zones to Bahrain, China, France, Hong Kong and Sweden, and plan to build a second government cloud region in the United States. Microsoft is running a total of 36 data centers, including South Korea, with the goal of building six more in South Africa, France and Australia.
Alibaba, on the other hand, which accounts for nearly half of the Chinese cloud market and is targeting the global market, also builds CDC and launches services in Malaysia this month. Alibaba has been active in overseas markets since last year and operates 15 data centers in China, Japan, USA, Singapore, Middle East and Australia.
"Cloud companies worldwide are building data centers around the world to ensure availability and service speed," said Song Joon-hwa, head of the Korea IT Services Industry Association. "Data centers are more advantageous in terms of service availability, "The number of data centers we have can soon be seen as cloud competitiveness."
Domestic companies are also building overseas data centers among them. KT built CDC in Los Angeles for the first time in Korea last year. NBP (Naver Business Platform) plans to open and expand its German data center in September, following Singapore, USA, Hong Kong and Japan. Among them, there is a concern that domestic companies cannot catch up with the competitiveness of foreign companies.
Kim Young-hoon, vice chairman of the Korea Cloud Industry Association, said, "Domestic companies have gaps in terms of capital capabilities with global companies, but they need more bold and aggressive investment because data centers are at the core of cloud service competitiveness. It`s not too late, as the market will get bigger, and we`ll have to take the opportunity now. "
By Lee Gyung Tak kt87@