KUALA LUMPUR: The AIMS Group (AIMS) has projects a positive outlook for 2020 backed by its expansion of its local and regional footprint within South East Asia along with the government’s digital transformation initiatives to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI).
Southeast Asia’s leading carrier-neutral data centre services provider said the expansion of its local and regional footprint will primarily be in Thailand and Vietnam.
The company believe this can further elevate the country’s efforts in becoming a sustainable and prosperous digital nation.
Initiatives such as customised investment incentives amounting up to RM1 billion annually over five years to attract targeted Fortune 500 companies and global unicorns will make Malaysia an attractive hub for regional and international companies, AIMS noted.
Chief executive officer Chiew Kok Hin said the company is ready to provide its expertise as the leading data centre in the region to help companies expand their regional presence.
Hin said the company is also looking at opportunities to expand its presence locally, given the clear need of purpose-built data centres for companies that require high power usage and large floor space to safeguard their mission-critical data and other IT infrastructure needs.
"Moving forward, we would like to look into opportunities to further establish AIMS Data Centre as a key regional data centre player and operator, and unlock the long term potential of the data centre business.
"Our latest addition to our regional presence is the AIMS Data Centre in Thailand. Our strategy is to replicate AIMS Malaysia’s success and create a similar ecosystem by leveraging AIMS' credibility to expand our capability across the region," he added.
Meanwhile, AIMS noted that the announcement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect location at Menara AIMS has made the company its only Direct Connect location in Malaysia, helping customers reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.
In addition to that, it said Menara AIMS is also the location for Azure Express Route and other Cloud Service Providers making AIMS effectively the first and most inter-connected Cloud Exchange in Malaysia.
“AIMS will continue to lobby for the re categorisation of the data centre power tariff to further increase the competitiveness of Malaysia as the regional data centre hub.
“We strongly believe that if there is more regulatory support as proven by the efficient amendment of the cabotage policy, the data centre industry in Malaysia would flourish more rapidly, subsequently expediting FDI into the country and helping to speed up the digital economy of Malaysia,” it added.