Experts discuss cloud computing
"In the
near future, cloud computing will help enterprises and organisations
save a lot of expenditure for IT infrastructure and energy and provide
more suitable applications for users," said Phan Thanh Son, chief
technology officer of Cisco Systems Vietnam.
Cloud computing delivers infrastructure, service and software on demand via the internet.
Traditional IT computing needs dedicated consumption, traditional
hardware procurement, manual addition of new services and manual repair
of system failure. Its provisioning is made on a monthly basis and costs
based on incremental purchases.
On the other hand,
cloud computing offers shared consumption, self-service for easy use,
scale on demand, automated recovery, provisioning on minutes and cost
based on pay per use.
Other companies like EMC,
VMWare, ADC Krone, Panduit, NetApp and Hitachi Data Centre also shared
their experiences on developing cloud computing for different tasks and
settings.
Cisco, which organised the conference,
said it planned to make it an annual event, providing enterprises with
the opportunity to deploy cloud computing applications effectively.
In related news, Vietnam's IT giant, Financing and Promoting
Technology Corporation (FPT) has announced it will launch its cloud
computing products based on the Microsoft platform at the end of this
year.
Late last year, the corporation had set up a
data centre with cloud computing applications. The company said it
planned to release some management software and other products like
eTax, eCustom, eHospital and eClinic into the local market soon. /.