Industry Findings: Infrastructure densification across Asia Pacific is changing how organisations design recoverability, shifting the emphasis from distant cold-standby sites to distributed, low-latency recovery corridors. A material non-vendor signal arrived in Jan-2025 when major regional operators reported accelerated datacentre capacity rollouts across multiple APAC metros, enabling enterprises to host immutable backup targets nearer to production workloads. This capacity growth reduces replication windows and permits more frequent restore rehearsals, which in turn drives procurement toward providers offering integrated interconnect, deterministic replication SLAs and managed orchestration that leverages newly available metro fabrics. The upshot is faster, more testable recovery architectures across the region.
Industry Player Insights: The region’s industry momentum is led by NTT, Equinix, Google Cloud, and Digital Realty etc. Vendor competition now ties metro reach to operational runbooks. NTT announced a major data-center expansion programme across APAC in Jan-2025 that increased available DR staging capacity in key metros, enabling service providers to offer lower-latency vaulting and faster orchestration for enterprise customers. Equinix complemented metro availability by adding secure interconnection fabrics in Jul-2024, which helps DR vendors certify low-latency replication and predictable failover sequencing. These provider initiatives push buyers to prefer partners that can combine dense metro footprints with certified recovery playbooks and interconnect-backed replication guarantees.