VietNamNet Bridge - 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. … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s NISCI and IBM collaborate for Cloud Computing Leapfrog
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Cloud computing market warms up
VietNamNet Bridge - A recent survey has found that the majority of Vietnamese businesses plan to use cloud computing, considering this the top priority. Meanwhile, more Vietnamese and foreign service providers have joined the market. The VMware Cloud Index 2013 which was released on November 6, 2013, showed that 83 percent of Vietnamese enterprises consider utilizing cloud computing, while 67 percent of them said cloud computing has significant influences to their business. Especially, 80 percent of businesses said the server consolidation through virtualization would have big impacts on enterprises in the next 2 or 3 years. Huynh Phuc Yem Quan, General Director of VMware, specially emphasized the BYOD trend (bring your own device). Nearly 80 percent of surveyed enterprises said the mobility would have significant impacts to their organizations in the next 2-3 years, while 76 percent believe they can satisfy their staff's requirements on the higher-cooperation working … [Read more...] about Cloud computing market warms up
Clear Sky Thinking on Cloud Computing
(VEN) - The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) held a workshop on June 28 in Hanoi under the theme, "CIOs with Challenges from New Technology" to give chief information officers (CIOs) a strategic outlook on application of new technology and leading information technology in cloud computing and its impacts on CIOs and organizations at present and in the future. The workshop was part of the VCCI-directed Supporting Businesses in Applying IT for Integration and Development in 2005-2010 project. Hoang Van Dung, VCCI deputy chairman, emphasized the VCCI's efforts to seek and present solutions to help businesses effectively apply IT. "With the current trend of new technology development, particularly IT, choosing the right technology is difficult for many organizations and businesses. In this context, CIOs play a particularly important role in directing IT for their businesses/organizations. With that in mind, the VCCI has launched many activities to improve the role of … [Read more...] about Clear Sky Thinking on Cloud Computing
Biggest telecom groups use clouds to save costs
VietNamNet Bridge - Viettel and MobiFone, the two biggest mobile network operators, have pioneered in using their cloud computing to cut costs and shorten the time for service development. In June 2013, MobiFone announced the agreement on the strategic cooperation in building mobile solutions in Vietnam on the basis of IBM's cloud computing for MobiFone II center. The mobile solutions on the cloud computing would help MobiFone connect its thousands of workers with mobile devices. Viettel still has not exposed information about the scale and the initial achievements in applying cloud computing. The mobile network operator is not only a cloud computing technology user, but it is also one of the few network operators that provide Cloud VPS - a cloud computing service for public use at the fundamental level. VDC has also joined the market which now provides Managed Backup and IaaS. In general, the public cloud computing service providers in Vietnam remain small. Some SI and ISV have … [Read more...] about Biggest telecom groups use clouds to save costs
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 20/6
Local suppliers find blocks to supermarket access Small local suppliers are being confronted with demands for huge trade discount rates and bribery in order to access supermarket distribution. At the workshop on the retail market, Pham Ngoc Hung, vice chairman of the HCM City Business Association, said in order to get products on display, firms are being arm-twisted into paying VND10-20m (USD454-909) for each type of product. They also have to bribe sorting and placement staff or their products won't be displayed properly. Small sized firms aren't in a position to pay huge amounts and also have to accept huge trade discount rates to get their products displayed, especially export firms who consider discount rates as marketing costs. As a result, this has encouraged even higher discount rates. Le Thi Thanh Lam, director of SaigonFood TM Company said foreign-owned supermarkets were asking for huge discount rates while domestic supermarkets were indifferent toward them. "Some supermarket … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 20/6