On 10 Nov, 2011, IBM Corp revealed it would invest RM1 billion over a six-year period to build its Global Delivery Centre (GDC) in Cyberjaya. Ramanathan Sathiamutty, managing director for IBM Malaysia, reportedly said the new centre was expected to create 3,000 jobs to service its clients around the globe, particularly the United States and Europe.
Patt Cronin, IBM Corp general manager for global technology delivery and delivery excellence, said – “It will offer service system operations, end-user services and security for our clients across different industries, from finance to retail. We selected Malaysia because the country has a good pool of skills and talents, as well as strong public-private partnerships.”
By Feb 2014, slightly more than 2 years later, IBM officially launched its new GDC. The 10-storey 300,000 sq ft centre would support IBM’s cloud services, including the provisioning and management of IBM SmartCloud Enterprise + (SCE+) solutions, as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications.
More importantly, the RM1 billion investment to build the GDC was meant to deliver high value services to clients in the areas of Software Platform Management, Server Systems Operations, Security and Risk Management, and Project Management. It was such a high profile that even then-Prime Minister Najib Razak conveniently took credit of the investment.
Today, seven years after it was first opened, all the dreams of creating highly skilled jobs that can help transform the country’s economy in the 21st century go up in smoke. IBM has decided to close down the GDC by May 31. What has gone wrong with the RM1 billion investments that IBM saw it’s no longer feasible to continue doing business in Malaysia?
As much as IBM said it remains committed to Malaysia on building hybrid cloud and AI (artificial intelligence) even after closing down the GDC, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell that the American multinational technology company was untruthful that it has lost confidence in Malaysia. Early this month IBM revealed Singapore as testbed for 5G and emerging technology.
IBM had apparently partnered with Samsung Electronics and Singapore digital network operator M1 to launch what is being referred to as an “Industry 4.0 Studio” – a testing ground that could simulate and demonstrate how businesses can harness the power of hybrid cloud and AI technologies, as well as advanced 5G capabilities, to transform critical operations.
Built on Red Hat OpenShift platform, the Industry 4.0 use cases, which involve the design and integration of 5G Standalone (SA) solutions and formulation of 5G test cases to meet regulatory requirements, employ IBM’s AI solutions for visual and acoustic analysis and augmented reality technologies. This is something that Malaysia could not offer.
As the incompetent, clueless, corrupt and bureaucratic Malaysian government struggles to roll out 5G, the Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) – as part of Singapore’s 5G efforts – has quietly and strategically offered to host the country’s first 5G Industry 4.0 trial. Lew Chuen Hong, IMDA chief executive, said – “5G is a potential game changer for Industry 4.0″.
Yes, as Malaysia continues its chest-thumping rhetoric about Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), neighbouring Singapore has quickly identified 7 areas to be explored under the Industry 4.0 Studio – visual recognition solutions, acoustic insights, augmented reality (AR), automated guided vehicles and collaborative robots and container-based applications with continuous monitoring.
Hilariously, despite losing IBM, International Trade and Industry Minister Azmin Ali denied that Malaysia is losing out on foreign investments from multinational corporations (MNCs) to its neighbours. Azmin, the Senior Minister cum gay lieutenant of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, has instead argued that the government is selective for more quality investments.
Azmin said – “We are now more selective in terms of investments coming into our country. We no longer want labour-intensive industries coming to Malaysia because we do not want to be over-dependent on foreign workers. We would like to welcome foreign investments that can create value for the local players. We do not want any future investments that are tied to labour intensive industries.”
What type of grass has this gay been smoking? Wasn’t IBM’s GDC built to create highly skilled jobs that are valuable to local players? Had he done anything to stop IBM from going over to Singapore? He can’t play the finger-pointing game because his ministry is the one responsible for the implementation of Industry Revolution 4.0, even before he betrayed his previous government.
Before the traitor Azmin betrayed the previous legitimately and democratically-elected multiracial Pakatan Harapan government, he was the Economic Affairs Minister. It was he who bragged at a forum in Oct 2018 that he received instructions from then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to turn the Multimedia Super Corridor in Cyberjaya into a global IT hub that embraces Industry Revolution 4.0.
After the collapse of Pakatan government, Azmin was appointed as the International Trade and Industry Minister. Again, in Sept 2020, he proudly announced that the Cabinet of backdoor Perikatan Nasional government has approved the National 4IR and Digital Council to provide “policy leadership” on matters regarding the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0) and digitalisation.
It was only last month that backdoor PM Muhyiddin proudly announced a whopping RM56 billion to develop the country’s digital economy. And nearly half of the budget – RM21 billion – was allocated for the National Digital Connectivity (JENDELA) programme – a 5-year plan to extend fixed fibre optic internet coverage to 9 million premises by 2025 from 7.5 million in 2022.
The prime minister has also pledged another RM12 to RM15 billion investments into cloud computing service providers for the next 5 years. Interestingly, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Telekom Malaysia (TM) reportedly had already been given contracts to develop and manage super data centres and hybrid cloud services. Curiously, however, none of the foreign tech giants talked about it.
There could only be two reasons – either Google, Microsoft, Amazon knew the multibillion contracts were political gimmicks not worth mentioning or there were no such projects to begin with. Did the incompetent government think the world would wait for the country to complete its half-baked Jendela programme in 2025 before using 5G to start Industry Revolution 4.0?
Besides, exactly why would Amazon be dumb enough to waste money in building data centres in Malaysia when the American multinational technology company had already agreed to invest US$2.85 billion to build three data centres in Indonesia’s West Java province by the end of 2021 and early 2022? Clearly, Muhyiddin tries to hoodwink gullible voters.
Having established its presence in the country for decades, IBM understood very well when to take government seriously and when to ignore it completely. Like it or not, the decision to shut down the Global Delivery Centre in Cyberjaya is an acknowledgement that Malaysia has reached a critical stage where foreign investments do not trust the current backdoor Muhyiddin government.
Only labour-intensive industries or dirty manufacturing like China’s Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd, a Chinese company that needs local natural resources to produce paper and paperboard are interested to invest in Malaysia. Both Azmin and Muhyiddin have gotten the priorities wrong when they celebrated Nine Dragons Paper’s acquisition of paper and pulp mill, while IBM was shutting down.
From 2018 till today, despite given fancy titles, Azmin Ali has spent his time only in scheming, politicking and sleeping with men. He moaned, whined and bitched about Industry Revolution 4.0 without any idea what he was talking about. Does this clown know what is cloud computing in the first place, let alone how 5G could become a game changer for Industry 4.0?
The best part is, IBM is not the first multinational to exit Cyberjaya. After its major customer and partner Shell moved IT operations from Cyberjaya to India, German IT company T-Systems sold its business in Malaysia to private investment holding firm Quintephi Sdn Bhd at the end of November 2020. T‑Systems Malaysia was established in 2008 to serve Shell.
Last November, Hyundai signed a preliminary deal to build a new factory in Indonesia with an investment of US$1.55 billion (RM6.26 billion) until 2030. The South Korean company is closing its Asia Pacific regional HQ in Mutiara Damansara in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia in favour of investment incentives offered for electric vehicles (EVs) in Indonesia.
Facebook, Lazada, Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba are some of the big names that have made Singapore as its regional hub, strategic location or data centre hub, leaving Malaysia behind. While it’s understandable why Malaysia loses to Singapore, it’s absolutely humiliating that Malaysia has lost not only to Vietnam in manufacturing, but also lost to Indonesia in the automobile business.
Does IBM, Hyundai, Shell, T‑Systems sound like cheap labour industries to homosexual Senior Minister cum International Trade and Industry Minister Azmin Ali? The clueless gay should realize that MNCs are avoiding Malaysia with a 10-foot pole not only because of political instability, but also the increasing lack of talents as a result of 60 years of “Ketuanan Melayu”, the ideology of Malay supremacy.
To make matters worse, the constant screaming of racial and religious rhetoric by PAS Islamic party in the government has made the country more extreme, radical and hostile to foreign investors. Just when the country needs highly skilled jobs, the closing down of IBM GDC will see more than 1,000 employees jobless after losing 800 when T-Systems quits its business in Malaysia.
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March 24th, 2021 by financetwitter
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There’s always another side to gomen spin on any of any and every disaster only our ridiculously stupid, inept, incompetent, useless and worthless, shit4brain monkey politicians can produce. Malaysia’s history is peppered with no end of unbelievable cases of disasters, mostly those involving huge amounts of money wasted either going to politicians’ pockets or down the drains.
I am inclined to believe it would not have been such a disaster for IBM, right at the start they would and should have gone to Singapore, which would have been an obvious choice for everything and more required of what IBM was after.
For a start, for what was said: “… We selected Malaysia because the country has a good pool of skills and talents…”, it is plain impossible to believe and impossible not to be spotted as utterly and patently untrue. We simply do not have “good pool of skills and talents”, let alone half a coconut shell’s worth. Compared to right next door, Singapore, Malaysia is Stone Age for even the very basic in simple IT needs. Our long saga of failed “Multimedia Super Corridor” would have told anyone blind and deaf that Malaysia is a sick joke. Even with a simple thing as a decent internet connection, we have no end of problems getting that half right.
A friend from Europe wanted to set up support for his two separate European-wide SEO operations found to his horror on an initial visit, the level of English fcuking horrendous! He rightly chose the Philippines. Good job he didn’t set up to discover the slowness brains warm up, the general laziness, avoidance of work, the great love for holidays, days off, sick leaves, long breaks, long lunches, lateness at work, monkeying with attendance punch cards, chats on phones, endless fcuking about on the internet…
IBM would have quickly found out there’s no support it can get from outside itself that do not run the same way as not fcuking running. It is a big fat mystery why in the two years it took just to set up its location, it hadn’t woken up to the amazing world of work of Malaysia, and amazing Malaysiaboleh!
Something weird and fishy must have gone on.
I would say, there must be those on our side, our amazing natural bollocks spinners who did a surprising great job selling street con artist bullock manure to the angmohs. Maybe they did their stolen PowerPoint presentation over a lavish dinner any of our pigs would have decided the menu specially for themselves. Maybe the angmohs were bowled over by our nasi lemak and Gordon Ramsey approved crispy chicken. It could even be our Mao San durians what won over the angmohs.
But as usual with Malaysian “cuisine”, hospitality, and propensity of our fcuking shit4brain politicians, you wake up the next morning with a fcuking headache, riotous runny stomach, and massive regret having anything to do with Malaysia.
Hence IBM buggered off even before you finished saying “5G”. Some punters and and those “educated” in our crap-standard “universities” would say Singapore is going to be an expensive place. I say not. You can’t compare paying a big sum to get something done to paying a big sum to getting nothing done. Anything that takes five years to do takes a lifetime
in Malaysia. At the end of a lifetime, nothing happened, think “Vision 2020”, fcuk me, ain’t that a joke carried forward to 2030 and forever?!
The angmohs will not be pissed off everyday first thing in the morning in Singapore. Anything can trigger an angmoh in Malaysiaboleh.
Anyway, it’s no loss for Malaysiaboleh IBM leaving, nothing is a loss in Malaysiaboleh. Every loss can be explained in plain good old Bolehland quality bullsh*t, just listen to any of our shit4brain politician monkey, you can ass-fcuked as you get our Assman Ali, Alhamdulilah!
beware world economic forum davos agenda 4th industrial revolution by klaud schwab on transhumanism. pls look info it and write something as many are not awaken of the agenda
Sure, blame Azmin who’s on the job for 1 year. For 22 months before that, Pakatan Harapan was in charge. In major corporations, they make such big decisions only after efforts to change failed. This means the problem started at the PH government time. If you would recalled, Anwar Ibrahim was actively sabotaging the PH government, and they couldn’t function like as government.