VietNamNet Bridge – 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