The terminology “cloud computing” has been mentioned by more and more Vietnamese enterprises recently. Experts believe that cloud computing would be the choice of enterprises and government agencies in the near future, because the model is especially suitable for Vietnamese enterprises.
At the recent workshop on fostering the potentials of Asia-Pacific held in Singapore in mid December, Orlando Ayala, a senior executive of Microsoft talked about the big benefits that cloud computing can bring to enterprises and users.
He stressed that the development of cloud computing in the last 15 years has brought good opportunities to many countries, helping restructure the national economies by removing the barriers for the business development, allowing to exchange information more quickly, fostering the technology renovation, minimizing expenses and helping save energy. Besides, cloud computing also allows governments to provide information services more effectively.
Cloud computing is the ideal solution because it allows to settle the problems and difficulties that enterprises are now facing, such as the lack of information technology capability. Especially, with cloud computing, enterprises do not have to spend much money on initial investments or on maintaintenance of cumbersome labour force.
According to experts, from 2011, at least 35 percent of medium enterprises in the US will use cloud computing solutions, and 40 percent of small and medium enterprises in the world will use the cloud computing-based applications. A Gartner’s survey on the rights and responsibilities of cloud computing users, released in October 2010, showed that to date, Microsoft has been considered one of the most suitable cloud computing service providers.
Currently, big countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Brazil and India are all using the services of the provider. A high ranking executive of Microsoft has revealed that more than 7000 enterprises are using its cloud computing solutions, including AP newswire, Dell, Ebay, Coca Cola and Siemens.
The users have released good feedbacks about the solutions they are using. Coca Cola, for example, said it has found the right solution to manage the labour force with more than 70,000 workers from 431 branches worldwide. Meanwhile, AP said that with the cloud computing solutions, the news can be transmitted more easily and is more accessible to readers.
In May 2010, Vietnamese FPT (Corporation of Financing and Promoting Technologies) and Microsoft reached an agreement on the cooperation to research the opportunities of cloud computing in Vietnam and to carry out commercial services on the trial basis. The agreement was reached during the working visit to Vietnam by the foreign group’s CEO Steve Ballmer.
A lot of Vietnamese enterprises have shown their interests and willingness in using cloud computing services. Le Viet Hung, Strategic Director of Techcombank said that cloud computing has become a “Fashionable model”. The model has been highly appreciated for its flexibility in treating data. The model proves to be effective for both big and small enterprises.
“With most enterprises having branches located in different, Vietnam will gain big benefits from cloud computing solutions,” Hung said
Source: VnMedia