KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) has pronounced Microsoft’s Bersama Malaysia initiative as a game-changer towards the country’s digital-first agenda, in line with the nation’s MyDIGITAL aspirations.
“Microsoft’s plan to establish its first datacentre region in Malaysia and its catalytic role in digital infrastructure is set to accelerate the nation’s innovation in cloud technologies, further boosting local and foreign investors’ confidence in Malaysia,” MIDA said in a statement today.
Microsoft’s commitment to prowess up to 1 million Malaysians by December 2023 will propel the local digital workforce to drive the nation’s digital economic growth.
Microsoft’s Bersama Malaysia was launched yesterday by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Prime Minister of Malaysia. This collaboration strengthens Microsoft’s long-term commitment to help empower Malaysia’s inclusive digital economy through public-private partnerships.
The upcoming Microsoft datacentre region is expected to benefit local businesses, the Government, and communities across all sectors. The local datacentre region will comprise a set of datacentres located within Greater Kuala Lumpur, deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated low-latency network.
Users are able to gain fast access to Microsoft’s leading-edge cloud services as well as the ability to store data and applications in the country.
The datacentre region will also feature Azure Availability Zones, with unique features such as physical locations equipped with independent power; network and cooling support for additional tolerance and withstand datacentre failures. This ensures data remains available and protected, even when there’s an event impacting the datacentre site such as power failure; without comprising data residency, privacy, security or compliance.
Based on research conducted by IDC, Microsoft’s investment in Malaysia will assist in generating approximately RM19 billion in revenues over the next four years within the country’s ecosystem of local partners and cloud-consuming customers.
Moreover, Microsoft and its partners, together with the cloud-using customers will also assume significant roles in growing the nation’s workforce, contributing more than 19,000 direct and indirect new job opportunities over the same period of time.
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