IBM deploys its cloud computing solutions in Vietnam

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The company has launched its Softlayer cloud computing software solutions in Vietnam, earmarked for all types of enterprises, including even small- and medium-sized ones.

The solutions can help enterprises ensure information security with high realiability, and very high speed.

IBM Softlayer solutions allow the implementation of cloud computing within just few minutes, instead of several months traditionally. Customers can use them based on private or virtual clouds, and private servers.

Additionally SoftLayer solutions provide users with thousands of service orders, maximising enterprises’ corporate governance capacity.

In Vietnam, N Kid Corporation, the owner of nationwide famous kid-oriented tiNiWorld and tiNiTown brand names, has been one of the first small- and medium-sized ones to apply the solutions to expand its services to scores of groups of customers, with more than 400,00 customers each month and about 20 centres throughout the country.

“SoftLayer solutions’ strong points are that they have high speed and can be used flexibly,” said N Kid Corporation’s business development director Michael Ngo.

Acquired in July 2013 by IBM, Softplayer is the world’s largest private provider of cloud computing services, with more than 30,000 customers from 140 nations including many enterprises listed in the Fortune 500. Softlayer’s cloud computing foundation is based in the US, Europe and Asia and manages more than 100,000 types of information technology equipment.

“Over the past years, IBM has increasingly been changing its business model via investing into developing high-value technology trends like cloud computing, analytics technology, mobile solutions and business solutions in the social networks,” said IBM Vietnam’s general director Tan Jee Toon.

“The inclusion of Softlayer into IBM’s list of cloud computing solutions has marked a big stride for us to extend these solutions to new markets and customers like Vietnam. We see cloud computing not only as a technological phenomenon, but also a major impetus for enterprises to help enterprises access more customers in new ways,” he continued.

IBM has invested more than $6 billion each year into research and development activities, with a large part of the sum used for renovating cloud computing solutions. IBM has 1,560 cloud computing patents and 40,000 cloud computing experts.

Since 2007, IBM has acquired 17 cloud computing companies and invested $7 billion into making a list of high-value cloud computing solutions. In January 2014, IBM announced its commitment to invest $1.2 billion into expanding its cloud computing activities globally. It is expected that IBM will have had 40 cloud computing data centres throughout the world’s five continents.