Businesses looking to the cloud

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The recent political uncertainty in Thailand has triggered businesses to view cloud computing as a potential alternative, according to NetApp Thailand, which achieved 25 percent growth last year.

NetApp Thailand country manager Weera Areeratanasak noted that the company's growth in revenue last year (May 2009-April 2010) was mainly due to storage efficiency solutions.

He noted that the political crisis recently caused many organisations to consider cloud computing, although some don't want it to be hosted in Thailand.

By this year, NetApp will increase dynamic data centre or internal cloud computing services to serve requirements of mid-to-large enterprise customers.

NetApp disclosed that the company's growth is over 25 percent in revenue, of which 50 percent came from new customers, with more than 150 accounts.

"We continue our 100 percent commitment to channel partners," the country manager said, adding that NetApp achieved big accounts in new key segments, including financial and security institutes, service providers and entertainment.

Last year, the company's key segments were storage virtualisation and storage efficiency. The concept of shared infrastructure, the joint solution of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare, to secure multi-tenancy of three companies with one architecture, has created significant momentum in Thailand.

Based on NetApp's 2011 fiscal year, Weera said the company aims to grow its market share and become among the top three in Asean, where storage efficiency, unified architecture and virtualisation are the three business drivers.

Apart from an alliance with Cisco and VMWare, NetApp this year will partner with Microsoft and SAP to offer specific joint solutions.

Weera added that NetApp will support existing customers by increasing efficiency increasing through upgrading without cost, and offer professional storage efficiency services to new customers. For those who never run NetApp, the company will provide them with storage efficiency, unified architecture and a dynamic data centre.

Pointing out the research, he said data is growing 30 percent each year and technology has cut storage investment. However, with data growing faster than technology, costs have increased.

"To maintain the rising 30 percent growth of data without budget increase, NetApp has concentrated on storage efficiency," said Weera.

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