This IDC study provides an overview of the market dynamics and development trends in the China datacenter service market for 2008?2012. It covers the market overview in 2007, the datacenter services revenue breakdown by service function, and by vertical industry, as well as the analysis of datacenter market's industry structure, the competitive positioning of the leading vendors, and the future outlook of the China datacenter market.

"The overall datacenter services revenue in China reached US$371.4 million in 2007. IDC expects this market to reach a value of US$1.2 billion by 2012, driven by the increased use of the Internet as the demand for larger storage and higher bandwidth, especially with the advent of instantaneous video and voice services. Basic service will remain to be the important earning source of datacenter market service providers (SPs). The proportion of value-added services (VASs) will remain stable in the coming years, due to disaster recovery (DR), content delivery network (CDN), and other services that will be adopted in greater scope," says Ting Yang, senior market analyst, Software and Services Research, IDC China.