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 environment.

However, 32 percent of businesses still don’t have the effective control systems for BYOD programs.

“Businesses show that they have paid more attention to the staff’s demand for bringing their own devices to the offices. However, ensuring the information security remains a big headache to them when utilizing cloud computing, because the enterprises’ systems may be attacked through personal devices,” Quan said.

Also according to Quan, 25 percent of polled enterprises said they still don’t have any effective plans for data loss prevention.

The worry about the information security explains why most of the businesses intend to spend their time and money in 2013 and 2014 to implement Private Cloud (44 percent). About 23 percent of businesses said they may use Hybrid Cloud, while none said Public Cloud would be their choice.

The report, as admitted by Quan, only shows the expectations on the cloud computing market, while it cannot provide exact figures about the utilization of cloud computing in Vietnam.

The VMware CEO, when presenting the report, emphasizing that the Vietnamese enterprises that have been using VMware’s service, can save the initial investment costs by 5-7 times, while the number of servers needed has decreased by 10 times.

Having realized the high demand for cloud computing solutions from Vietnamese enterprises, more and more service providers have joined the lucrative market.

Vietnamese VDC on October 9 launched Cloud VNN service on the basis of Cisco’s cloud technology.

According to Deputy Director of VDC Tran Viet Hung, cloud computing services have been developing very rapidly in the US, UK and Australia, and it would also develop strongly in Asia, including Vietnam.

Before VDC launched its service, Vietnam had had 8 cloud computing service providers already.

Oracle also believes that it is now the right time for it to turn up before Vietnamese businesses. Chandru Relwani, a senior executive of Oracle, noted that the economic recession brings the opportunities to cloud computing service providers.

Meanwhile, BMI, a market survey firm has quoted an ACCA’s report (Asia Cloud Computing Association) as saying that Vietnam still has not got ready for cloud computing.

ACCA is an organization of many big technology firm members such as Acatel Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Telenor and Rackspace.

According to ACCA, Vietnam ranks the 13th, or at the bottom of the list of Asian countries in the readiness for cloud computing, after Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, China and India, even though Vietnam is considered a country with developed information technology infrastructure.

Thanh Mai