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annually to hit US$1.53 billion in 2010.

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The study, commissioned by

seven countries in the region including Singapore, China, India, South Korea and Japan.

The research revealed that the market boom will be driven largely by additional

data centres across Asia.

In 2005,

However, this number is set to grow to 32 per cent over the next three years, with residential and

enterprise demand accounting for the rest, AMI said in its report.

'A typical data file has more than tripled in size over the last few years,' said Ispran Kandasamy,

Systimax managing director of its Asia-Pacific operations. 'This trend is projected to continue over the

next several years as multiple terabytes of data are moved and stored on enterprise servers in data

centres.'

India is expected to lead the pack in terms of growth rates for data centre

region.

The local segment will grow 46 per cent annually and double its size from US$100 million currently to

US$200 million in 2009, AMI said.

China trails in second place with a projected annual growth rate of 37.5 per cent.

According to the research, the explosive growth in the mainland and India are attributed to a host of

factors, including the growing trend of hosting enterprise software like CRM (customer relationship

management) applications, as well as the launch of so-called 'triple play' voice, broadband and TV

services by local operators.

In addition, the rising popularity of Internet gaming and blogging in China are also responsible for

heightened data centre demand.

Beyond these emerging countries, the data centre

like Singapore and Hong Kong are also set for double-digit growth, AMI predicted.

Specifically in Singapore, the market is expected to grow by 25.3 per cent annually.

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nation-wide broadband infrastructure will lead to an increase in the number of data centres, the

company added.

'There is a lot of (technology) refresh going on in data centres (across Asia),' Raju Chellam, AMI

vice-president for Asia-Pacific, told BizIT yesterday.

'In Singapore, data centres are being overhauled and companies are adding more capacity. And in India

and China, new data centres are cropping up rapidly.'