Thailand's information technology (IT) spending is expected to exceed 10 billion baht this year, fuelled mainly by imminent third-generation (3G) full commercial service, says EMC, the global information management vendor.
Nathakorn Potejanasaja, the country manager of EMC Information Systems (Thailand), said enterprises - mainly in the telecommunications and banking sectors - are spending more on data centres to serve increasing data demand.
Companies now spend about 37% of their IT budgets on strategic projects compared with 30% in recent years, with the remaining 63% going to maintain IT infrastructure, he said.
Mr Nathakorn said expansion of data centre projects is stimulating demand for data storage, cloud computing and security-related systems.
Most construction of data centres is designed for disaster recovery.
Commercial banks are continuing to build data centre back-up to reduce costs.
Mr Nathakorn said big data is another high-growth area in areas of storage and business analytic tools thanks to the imminent arrival of 3G wireless broadband services.
EMC is offering a big-data integration product featuring predictive analytic capability.
International Data Corporation (Thailand), the global research firm, forecasts the value of the country's big-data market will grow by 52% to US$8.5 million this year.
Mr Nathakorn said EMC is expanding its footprint to untapped small and medium-sized enterprises, as the segment is set to become lucrative.
EMC has acquired up to 70 companies globally in the past six years in a move to expand services to capitalise on high-growth technologies in cloud, big data and security, apart from its core storage business.
