By Dimitri Mahayana Today, with a total of more than 400 million active Facebookers in the world, 25 percent of them access via mobile phones. This figure is two times more active than access via personal computer / laptop. On the other hand, more than 100 telecommunications operators in 60 countries around the world, has been promoting the mobile up for their services.
Based on our research, Indonesia is ranked third in terms of its active Facebooker. Currently, more than 47 percent of domestic Internet users accessing the site. The number of active Facebooker in Indonesia reached 18.9 million, with traffic occupies the position of the 8th world.
Seeing such a tremendous market potential, economically, it should be the largest social networking site is approaching customers for faster response is felt. This approach also means sharing their good fortune by local areas where customers are located.
The question then, with the number of customers this much, why not put up the data center or collocation (collocation) in Indonesia? There is what in the world? It certainly is very damaging to Indonesia, namely, loss of business pie, and second, the need for international bandwidth Internet connections continues to rise.
Just let us count together. Today, with the number of "ummah" is so big, Facebook is rumored to have 60 thousand web servers, with expenditures approaching $ 500 billion in 2010 to the cost of the lease. If we consider each active user has the same space, it means that each user gets the allocation of data center lease costs of Rp 1,250 per year. If so, the share of rental data center for Facebooker Indonesia is Rp 23.6 billion per year!
That's just one site. Not with Twitter, Friendster, BlackBerry, Yahoo, Google, etc.. Rumors say up putting his data center in Singapore. Of course, in addition to Mark Zuckerberg made this site, other top internet site to duplicate the data in this neighboring country. Automatic, encourage interest in all of this global industry to collocation there. So, how mercifully Singapore and how hurt Indonesia.
There are four more suspected why Singapore was chosen instead of Indonesia to the occupancy data center. First, national security-safety. Admittedly, the level of security and investment climate in this country has not been as high as our neighboring countries.
Second, the quality of data centers in Indonesia are still left behind, both in terms of building configuration and operations management. This is actually a key factor.
Data Sharing Vision demonstrate the need for data centers by the global industry average tier-3. That data center with all its supporting infrastructure have redundancy as much as (N 1), so if you need 2 data center cooling system in operation, the data center will have the three cooling systems. In addition, the tier-3 have multiple paths for power and cooling distribution although only one channel is active. This makes the treatment process can be performed without interrupting operations. With the above provisions, the tier-3 has the availability of 99.96 percent or only 1.6 hours of downtime allowed for one year.
In order to see what kind of world-class data centers, it is very important for us to learn and perform direct comparative studies of the top data centers in the world. That is what underlies Visiting Sharing Vision conducted a workshop for World Class Data Center in Singapore in the next 2 to 3 December.
Third, the state has not explained the marketing concept and marketing strategies of the national information technology industry. According to data www.datacentermap.com, noted there are nine data centers in Indonesia are commercialized. Perhaps, from 9 data centers exist that have approached the tier-3, but the way of marketing to the global industry have not heard clearly.
This is unfortunate, Sharing Vision's calculations indicate data center services market in Indonesia in 2011 reached about USD 1.5 trillion. Therefore, more and more companies in Indonesia are aware of the importance of data centers and data recovery center with adequate infrastructure.
Fourth, regulatory uncertainty. It can be seen from the comparison of the implementation of WiMAX in Indonesia with courage blocking BlackBerry service in Saudi Arabia, for example. Four of these factors that make up et al still chose Singapore as a place of collocation, although users in Indonesia is much greater.
Ironic, indeed. Thus, clearly the message of this writing, "Let's improve the management and quality of national data centers while increasing the national data center market, in order to create balance the flow of bandwidth at home and abroad that will improve the life of Indonesia!"
The author, Dimitri Mahayana, is the founder and chief telecommunications and information research institute based in Bandung, Sharing Vision, and Lecturer School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics ITB.
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