Future Scenario for Hong Kong Data Centers and Impact of Cloud

Future Scenario for Hong Kong Data Centers and Impact of Cloud

Charles MokChair, Internet Society Hong Kong

Director, Cloud Valley Networks (HK) Limited

Data Center and Virtualization Summit 2011Sep 19, 2011

First, a look back

2006: data center companies complained of lack of space/land for new data center Rising demand, rising prices for customers Private land? Public land (industrial parks)? Move to Singapore?

The lobbying began...

Feb 2008: Organized meeting with Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP), IDCs/ISPs, Hon CK Sin. ITC only said they will do a consultancy study

The lobbying continues

I contacted Nicholas Brooke, HKSTP Chair in early 2008

Meeting with HKISPA, IDCs/ISPs, Hon CK Sin on June 16 2008

Brooke: 'Green lightfrom CEDB and LandsD to allow IDCs to enter industrial parks.'

Since then...

Industry parks are 'opened up' TKO (Tseung Kwan O) has become the center of

IDCs in Hong Kong NTT Com Asia (second in HK of >300 sq ft, after its first

212 sq ft facility in Tai Po) HK Colo (>300 sq ft facility opened in early 2011) HKEx HSBC ...

Government jumps on bandwagon

OGCIO thematic portal Data Center

facilitation unit

Is it enough?

New challenges we face

Lack improvement in private land supply TKO comes, Quarry Bay goes? The debate on indirect government subsidy

Regional competition Beyond Singapore, what about China? China's 'Cloud Computing Special Zone' in

Chongqing– 'Freedom' inside the Great Firewall? Cloud Computing and Virtualization

The Great Contradiction? Fewer servers → how much more space do we need?

Industry demands

Data center remains high on the industry players' wish list Who are building? Economic cycles impacting short term demands

'Fascination' with land supply Talk on Lok Ma Chau Loop – what will be the

market and technology like in 15-20 years' times? An easy demand and misplaced projection

under a perception of lack of Govt IT policy

Impact of Cloud

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Fat edge, thin core

Thin edge, fat core

Wintel architecture

New cloud infrastructure

The consequence of Big Data

Yet, a contrarian view...

Cloud Computing Architecture

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Virtualized resource pool

Applications/services

Toward distributed data centers?

Data center in a container

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, demonstrates container data centers on the campus of theUniversity ogf Washington.

Cloud3 – China's first container data center technology

Cooling as data center's core need

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占地 30英亩（相当于一个标准足球场）。附近有一个水坝，当地政府还提供为期 15年的税收优惠及一条连接谷歌总部的光缆环线。水坝旁建设大型冷却

塔，以解决数据中心的散热问题。该数据中心是全球威力最强大的数据中心之一，处理

每天数十亿次搜寻和提供其他网络服务。

Rethinking our data center strategy

Our advantages Hong Kong's core advantages remain unchanged

Our challenges Hong Kong's disadvantages remain unchanged Rethinking our land limitation Turning China's challenges into opportunities

Where to go from here? Rethinking our role between China and the world More emphasis on technology and applications

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Thank you!

Charles Mok

www.charlesmok.hk

www.isoc.hk

www.cloud-valley.com

[email protected]