Foreign IT giants promote cloud computing in Vietnam

A number of international IT giants are speeding up their cloud computing development in the fast-growing market of Vietnam.

Cloud computing is a new concept that eliminates the need for heavy internal software, hardware and storage. This method of computing is Internet-based; data and software and are provided on demand.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) held a press conference in Hanoi to announce the successful integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualisation and data deduplication.

The 3PAR technology is expected to improve operational efficiency of storage management tenfold and cut storage costs by up to 50% for customers.

At the conference, Bui Ngoc Thao, HP Vietnam’s Product Manager, said HP expects to have first 3PAR customers in Vietnam next month, believing that this technology will change storage solutions in the Vietnamese market in the five years to come.

Currently, seven out of ten world hosting service providers are using 3PAR, including Rackspace, Terremark, Savvis and SunGard, he noted.

Microsoft and FPT will jointly provide a number of cloud computing services in Vietnam by the end of the year, following an agreement signed last May.

FPT will introduce a similar service, called Microsoft Office 365, in the domestic market. The service will include Microsoft Office, Exchange Online and Office SharePoint Online. The corporation will also pour tens of millions of USD into cloud computing development in Vietnam next year.

IBM has joined hands with Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) to promote cloud computing in Vietnam. NISCI will select IBM’s hardware, software and other technologies to develop a new cloud computing lab that will supply the institute with a dynamic IT infrastructure.

IBM has also provided cloud computing services to many customers in Vietnam, including Vietnam Technology and Telecommunications Company and Quang Trung Software City.

Meanwhile, Intel said that it will focus on cloud coumputing development in Vietnam in the next five year period.

According to market researcher Gartner, up to up to two thirds of companies worldwide, including those from Vietnam, will use cloud computing by 2012.

Knowledge of cloud computing in the country still remains limited, which is one of the challenges for development of the service in Vietnam.

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