IBM provides cloud computing services for SMEs

Accordingly, Softlayer will provide services to Vietnamese companies, with priority given to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), even to group of projects.

Tan Jee Toon, IBM Vietnam General Director said that Softlayer will build clouds on a server owned by an enterprise or organisation in order to ensure privacy, security, confidentiality and computing capacity.

In addition, the service will help users control infrastructure and provide them with flexibility of payment to control costs effectively.

Softlayer was established in 2005 and reacquired by IBM group in July 2013. At present, it is the world’s largest cloud computing service provider with 30,000 customers from 140 nations.

Each year, IBM Group invests more than US$6 billion in cloud computing research and development. It is expected to have 40 data centres around the world by late 2014.