The company said that it would reach its goals by developing more software and a good technological infrastructure. — Photo go.vn

HCM CITY (Biz Hub) — IBM Vietnam will continue to focus on products that offer cloud, analytic, and mobile and social business solutions to meet customer demand, company representatives said on May 20.

Nguyen Kim Hoa, country manager for IBM Vietnam's systems and technology group, said that most companies were demanding an optimised information-technology infrastructure.

Speaking at a press conference held on Tuesday in HCM City, Hoa said that 63 per cent of the country's population would be further shopping online in the next two years and 57 per cent of companies would be using the cloud to improve competitiveness.

IBM will also continue to develop innovative products that give higher-value services to their customers, he said.

To meet the demand of a new era of computing, products and solutions have been changed and innovations have been made to core systems, according to an IBM press release.

The company said that it would reach its goals by developing more software and a good technological infrastructure.

The company unveiled a portfolio of software-defined storage products that enable businesses to access and process any type of data on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world.

One of them, called "elastic storage", is capable of reducing storage costs up to 90 per cent by automatically moving data on to the most economical storage device.

"Digital information is growing at such a rapid rate and in such dramatic volumes that traditional storage systems used to house and manage it will eventually run out of runway," Hoa said. "The new technology offers advances in speed, scalability and cost savings that clients require."

The company also announced that it had been ranked the top cloud-computing provider by businesses across the US, based on a survey of US market preferences for infrastructure services. Enterprises ranked Google fifth, Microsoft sixth and Amazon seventh.

The ranking was based on responses from more than 400 US-based companies that have more than 1,000 employees each. — VNS