Welcome to Singapore, Open Telekom Cloud! A new chapter for the public cloud market has begun as T-Systems with Open Telekom Cloud expands into Asia. In May 2017, Open Telekom Cloud started operating from the T-Systems Data Centre in Singapore and currently serves the market throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Gartner estimates that the value of public cloud services in the APAC market will reach US$12.4bn by 2019, having reached the already significant level of US$8.1bn in 2016: an impressive growth rate from an equally impressive starting point. The analysts from Gartner are not the only ones to take this view; in 2016 IDC recorded a growth rate of over 40 per cent in the public cloud market in Asia, confirming the fact that Asian market for cloud services is booming.

The Cloud Readiness Index compiled by the Asia Cloud Computing Association identifies the drivers of this growth as the huge state investment programmes which are now beginning to bear fruit. These include the expansion of broadband networks, but also the development of the national Government Cloud.

According to the report, Hong Kong and Singapore are at the top of the rankings when it comes to cloud readiness. It comes as little surprise that the report finds that the Asia-Pacific region is, in fact, significantly ahead of Europe and the USA on the cloud readiness front. In an area with an existing data centre and businesses hungry for cloud services, the setting up of a new Open Telecom Cloud region seemed like a natural next step.

The course has been set for further growth: Welcome Open Telekom Cloud in Singapore.