CUSTOMER-CENTRICITY HELPS DATA CENTRES OVERCOME DISRUPTION

WRITTEN BY: TOM SWALLOW

PRODUCED BY: LEWIS VAUGHAN

Avnish Patankar, Commercial Director of BDx Indonesia, defines the reasons for its data centre acquisitions and transparent approach to disruption

The data centre industry’s rapid expansion sees more opportunities across every border, with its growth making way for the introduction of BDx in 2019 and the continued success of existing data centre locations.

The company sought out advantageous growth opportunities, resulting in moving to a few different locations across the APAC region.

Taking on an emerging market with billions of dollars worth of potential over the next few years, BDx ventured beyond its China, Hong Kong and Singapore data centre facilities to acquire a further site in Indonesia last year. The reason for this being the projected CAGR from 6% to 13% leading up to 2028, and the projected industry value growth to US$3.43bn by 2027.

With four data centres in total, the company is operational across the three locations in Indonesia, allowing it to serve a growing number of users globally.

“Our global customers are joining us. At the same time, we are now building two more new data centres that are greenfield projects in Indonesia – in and around Jakarta,” says Avnish Patankar, Commercial Director at BDx Indonesia.

“Collectively, we are creating a bouquet of six assets for the main DC deployment and some 20 plus locations spanning Indonesia for edge deployments where we will be able to offer more choices to customers.”

The company’s venture into Indonesia marks a crucial step in BDx’s strategy, which will service the digital transformation needs of the country by enabling access to data centres at the edge. With a dedicated facility based there, its existing pool of global clients have the opportunity to colocate their IT infrastructure and workloads to enable more growth in the region.

“We ventured into Indonesia with a mission to support its digital transformation,” says Patankar.

“Now, coming with that mission to support, it’s very important. Any client who is coming from overseas or a local national client who is looking for a data centre, colocation asset for deploying its IT workloads, it’s important to provide them with what they need. They need locations, diversification in locations, scalability, security, they need network ability for connectivity.”