Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) today shakes hand with IBM to promote cloud computing in Vietnam.

NISCI will select IBM’s hardware, software and cloud solutions and implementation services to develop a new cloud computing lab that will provide the institute with a dynamic and flexible IT infrastructure.

NISCI selected IBM’s total solution comprising IBM’s BladeCenter S, simplifying infrastructure complexity and manageability while helping lower total cost of ownership; IBM’s Tivoli Service Automation Manager, enabling an integrated management capability that addresses the lifecycle changes of cloud services; IBM’s Rational Tester Portfolio, offering comprehensive test planning and test asset management to collect metrics for project governance and accelerate project schedules for shorter cycle times; and IBM cloud solutions and implementation services as it delivers capabilities beyond their requirements.

“IBM takes great pride in successfully providing NISCI with a smart and reliable cloud solution that meets its needs in managing and growing the digital content industry of Vietnam. It is also encouraging to see that the IBM Vietnam Cloud Lab has been unceasingly making a significant contribution to assist the Vietnamese leapfrog to new technology models,” said Tran Viet Huan, Manager and Chief Architect, IBM Cloud Lab, Vietnam.

“Cloud computing is an enabler of business transformation, at which both Vietnamese and the world’s ICT is targeting.” said Hoang Le Minh, General Director of NISCI.

The new cloud computing lab will allow NISCI to rapidly provide physical and virtualised development and testing resources to local government IT organisations by decreasing the testing time by up to 50 percent. As a result, NISCI will be able to focus on digital content delivery as well as the training and development of high level IT resources for the local ICT industry.

Through applying cloud computing technology on IBM’s servers, NISCI also succeeded in iDragon Cloud project in which NISCI has developed cloud solutions for enterprises on workstations, creating a harmonized platform for business’s cloud application in Vietnam.

In 2008, IBM cooperated with the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in establishing the Vietnam Information for Science and Technology Advance Innovation Portal (VIP), an open innovation pilot program based on cloud computing. Later in the same year, IBM established the IBM Cloud Lab in Vietnam, offering the local government a new IT investment model for better business and infrastructure alignment, fuelling further growth in this market.

IBM has been providing cloud computing services to many clients, such as Vietnam Technology and Telecommunications Company (VNTT) in late 2008, Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) where IBM helped set up a new cloud platform to consolidate all of the Ho Chi Minh City government data to facilitate the city’s modernisation of its socio-economic and technical infrastructure.

Source: VIR