Industry Findings: Malaysia regulatory shifts around data governance and national digital infrastructure strategy have reframed resilience from discretionary IT spend to an auditable operational requirement. A clear non-vendor inflection emerged in Jan-2024 when policy materials aligned with the MyDIGITAL rollout emphasised strengthened data-sovereignty enforcement and heightened expectations for continuity across financial and public institutions. That emphasis elevates the role of localised retention, verifiable restore rehearsals and audit-friendly evidence trails. As a result, buyers evaluate providers less on storage scale and more on recovery assurances—requiring predictable RTO performance, jurisdictional clarity for archived data and structured, regulator-aligned failover procedures embedded into procurement.
Industry Player Insights: Few of the vendors operating in the Malaysia industry are TM ONE, AIMS Data Centre, TIME dotCom, and VADS Berhad etc. Vendor competition increasingly hinges on who can deliver sovereign vaulting with hardened orchestration. TM ONE reinforced its cybersecurity and continuity framework in Aug-2024, embedding scheduled restore validation and governance logging tailored to regulated customers. AIMS expanded domestic capacity in Apr-2024 through its Cyberjaya build-out, providing new metro-adjacent vaulting for enterprises requiring in-country redundancy. TIME dotCom enhanced network-backed replication corridors in Jul-2024, supporting predictable failover sequences. VADS Berhad strengthened managed protection capabilities through updated service catalogues in 2024. These combined developments make in-country orchestration, metro proximity and audit-backed recoverability primary selection criteria for Malaysian enterprises.