Experts discuss cloud computing.

March 14, 2011 (VNA) -- Cloud computing would soon become themost important technology used in all aspects of life, experts said atconference held in HCM City on March 11. "In thenear future, cloud computing will help enterprises and organisationssave a lot of expenditure for IT infrastructure and energy and providemore suitable applications for users," said Phan Thanh Son, chieftechnology officer of Cisco Systems Vietnam. Cloud computing delivers infrastructure, service and software on demand via the internet. Traditional IT computing needs dedicated consumption, traditionalhardware procurement, manual addition of new services and manual repairof system failure. Its provisioning is made on a monthly basis and costsbased 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 costbased on pay per use. Other companies like EMC,VMWare, ADC Krone, Panduit, NetApp and Hitachi Data Centre also sharedtheir experiences on developing cloud computing for different tasks andsettings. Cisco, which organised the conference,said it planned to make it an annual event, providing enterprises withthe opportunity to deploy cloud computing applications effectively. In related news, Vietnam's IT giant, Financing and PromotingTechnology Corporation (FPT) has announced it will launch its cloudcomputing products based on the Microsoft platform at the end of thisyear. Late last year, the corporation had set up adata centre with cloud computing applications. The company said itplanned to release some management software and other products likeeTax, eCustom, eHospital and eClinic into the local market soon.

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