EMERSON NETWORK POWER TO BUILD MORE DATA CENTRES
0 Comments | BERNAMA; Malaysian National News Agency, Aug 12, 2010
from BERNAMA, The Malaysian National News Agency KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 (Bernama) — Emerson Network Power (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd expects to build two to three more data centres for their telecommunication clients next year.
“Roughly, a data centre would cost about RM10 million to set up. Our core business today are currently from the telecommunications sector, banking and finance, and Internet data centres (IDC).
“The company is moving towards vertical engagement, where we are definitely going into industrial markets like the oil and gas sector, which is still underserved in our business,” its managing director Henry Ng Loo Heng told a media briefing today.
He said the current trend in the business was highly efficient data centres that integrate green technology.
“We are bullish about the market, looking forward into next year where we see a growth of about 20 per cent.
“This year, there will be growth but not substantial. For our financial year ending next month, we are looking at about 10 per cent growth,” added Ng.
He said the demand for high energy efficient products in Malaysia was growing, as the country’s IT field moved towards high density growth area, virtualisation and cloud computing.
Ng said the company, like any other company, was also affected by the global financial crisis last year but with a lot of rationalisation and consolidation, the effects had been alleviated.
“A lot of product development had been done from the factory to prepare ourselves for the next big wave,” he said.
“Our business currently revolves around green technology, energy efficiency, and how we address the cooling of datacentres.
“When so much energy is loaded on to a server and IT, a good 30 to 80 per cent of the energy is spent on the cooling itself, and by deploying the right technology and solution, one can save a substantial amount on operating expenditure,” said Ng.
According to him, Emerson develops technology by getting constant feedbacks from the market and in Asia, a market house survey is done by going right to their customers, pinpointing their key concerns and developing a solution for the issue
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