LONDON & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report by consulting firm BroadGroup reveals that in the Greater China region (comprising of key cities Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Taipei) total data centre capacity will be dominated by Taiwan with some 40% total share.

The new report, Data Centres Greater China and the Philippines, (http://sales.broad-group.com/sp/ecom/broadgroup.csp?cmlc=dcChinaPhilippines) has assessed the most important players across 150 data centres in the region with profiles and analysis for each player to provide an up to date assessment of their data centre assets, locations and future plans.

Taiwan, which has the highest distribution of data centre facilities, will increase its current capacity by almost half again in the next 12 months.

The report aims to provide an overview of critical factors in for users in making their outsourcing, investment or leasing decisions. Power availability and pricing for example is addressed and suggests that both Shanghai and Taiwan offer competitive rates.

“Robust economic growth, improved telecom infrastructure and the rush to offer cloud-based, everything-as-a-service offerings are key factors driving data centre vendors to develop large-scale, high quality and energy-efficient data centres in Greater China”, commented Siow Meng Soh, associate consultant at BroadGroup.

Each city market is varied in character, deploying unique strategies to respond to demand for data centre and cloud facilities. In Taiwan, the largest market in this report by space – with FarEastTone the largest player in the markets covered by space. Hong Kong remains the largest by density of players. New data centre development in China is more often the result of overseas partnerships with one of the three main telcos who control the lion’s share of the market, and network access, although hosting specialists are now emerging. Large-scale data centres are being built primarily in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

The region remains fertile ground for data centre investment and International firms such as AT&T, Tata Telecommunications and Reliance Globalcom have already established positions, as have global content providers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Pacnet has recently announced a significant data centre investment linking its landing stations across Asia.

Although at differing in stages of market maturity, the report suggests a level of confidence has been sustained across the companies addressed in spite of the recession. With data centre expansion and inward investment responding to increased demand and driving growth, the next few years will be vibrant for the sector. The report also suggests that a regional play is now emerging which will alter the structure of ownership and competition in the data centre market over the next few years.