Courtesy of Viet Nam News
Despite the choppy economy this year, real
growth in information technology spending, cloud computing and big
data were leading the era of IT transformation, said Ajit Nair,
managing director, Southeast Asia Emerging Markets at EMC Corp, at
a workshop on Saturday in Da Nang.
"Though the time is not ideal, there will be
real growth, and Asia-Pacific is expected to grow faster than
average," Ajit said.
Last year, Asia-Pacific ranked second in
terms of IT spending, with an increase of 10.9 per cent, following
Latin America with a rise of 16.3 per cent, according to
International Data Corporation (IDC), a global market intelligence
firm. This year, global IT spending is forecast to grow 3-5 per
cent and Asia Pacific will lead the world with an increase of 7.3
per cent.
"Viet Nam will grow faster than most
countries in the Asia Pacific," Ajit said, arguing the country was
one of Asia's strongest emerging markets with increased
infrastructure developments as good opportunities for both foreign
and domestic investments.
Nguyen Duc Toan, country director of EMC
Viet Nam said, while the top three concerns of CIOs (chief
information officer) focused on limited budgets, a data boom and
data security, cloud computing was considered the ideal solution to
help businesses overcome such difficulties.
The cloud environment allows enterprises to
get their applications up and running faster with easier
manageability and less maintenance. IT resources would be provided
on demand to meet the fluctuating and unpredictable business demand
as well.
However, he also said cloud computing was a
concept rather than a product, for which meeting the five criteria
of rapid elasticity, measured service, on-demand self service,
resource pooling and broad network access were
necessary.
Currently in Viet Nam, DongA Bank is the
first enterprise building data centre based on this model of
computing and it has completed the first stage of IT environment
virtualisation.
Tran Nguyen Vu, deputy director of the
Ministry of Finance's Department of Financial Informatics and
Statistics, also said his ministry on its way to the cloud
application using EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage platform with an open
environment to store, analyse and use large amounts of
data