EMERSON Network Power (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd expects to build two to three more data centres for their telecommunication clients next year.

“Roughly, a data centre would cost about RM10 million to set up. Our core business today is currently from the telecommunications sector, banking and finance, and Internet data centres.

“The company is moving towards vertical engagement, where we are definitely going into industrial markets like the oil and gas sector, which is still underserved in our business,” its managing director Henry Ng Loo Heng told a media briefing yesterday.

He said the current trend in the business is highly efficient data centres that integrate green technology.

“We are bullish about the market, looking forward into next year where we see a growth of about 20 per cent.

“This year, there will be growth but not substantial. For our financial year ending next month, we are looking at about 10 per cent growth,” added Ng.

He said the demand for high energy efficient products in Malaysia is growing, as the country’s IT field moves towards high density growth area, virtualisation and cloud computing.

Ng said the company, like any other company, was also affected by the global financial crisis last year but with a lot of rationalisation and consolidation, the effects had been alleviated. – Bernama