APAC enterprises are reducing their data centre footprint

Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are planning to reduce their data centre footprint, relying instead on colocation facilities to improve IT efficiency and connectivity to the growing number of cloud-based services that they have come to rely on. Michael Warrilow, vice-president analyst at Gartner, cited the analyst firm’s research which showed that CIOs are expected to decrease further investment in data centres by a “massive amount” in Southeast Asia, Australia and elsewhere in the region.