Hitachi Asia (Thailand) and NIIT Technologies (Thailand) unveils first phase of Cloud Computing Services

Wednesday 30 June 2010 11:46
Hitachi Asia (Thailand) Co., Ltd., and NIIT Technologies Limited, today announced that Hitachi Asia (Thailand), NIIT Technologies, with business partner Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd. have jointly launched a high-reliability Cloud Computing Service leveraging the data center in Thailand.

These companies will offer the cloud services with strengths such as the brand image and sales force of Hitachi Asia (Thailand), Datacenter know-how and its operations, system implementations and operations on cloud of Hitachi Information Systems, NIIT Technologies highly reliable Datacenter resources and brilliant staff. The Suite of Cloud-based offerings “Caliver” derived from Cloud Computing being ‘alive’ and ‘responsive’ offers Resource on Demand, Virtual Mail Hosting and Virtual Web Hosting Services on the Cloud.

In future, all the companies plan to offer not only the Cloud Infrastructure services but expand the scope to bring more offerings which will facilitate the users of traditional IT Outsourcing to transform to the Cloud environment. All the companies plan to expand the same IT services to other Asian companies and shall endeavor towards the growth of the Cloud business and further strengthening their partnership.

“Asia is an area with high growth potential. Based on Hitachi Asia’s corporate vision, we will initiate business, take the lead and sustain growth in Asian markets proactively by focusing on our social innovation business which includes information and telecommunication systems. Hitachi Asia Thailand’s Cloud Computing service can meet Asia’s IT needs which is forecasted to shift from maintenance to usage of IT assets. I am convinced our service offers expert Cloud Computing solutions for Asia,” said Mr. Kazuo Karasawa, Managing Director of Hitachi Asia (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

“NIIT Technologies has been an early entrant on the Non-Linear business model and our customers are already benefiting from it. We are adopting the Cloud Computing Megatrend to leverage Non-Linear Business model further. We would keep the Cloud Computing Infrastructure ‘alive’ due to our proven Managed Services capabilities and track record. We will ensure Cloud Computing offering to be ‘responsive’ to customers by helping them in migration from traditional IT (Data Center) services and in adoption of non-traditional business models i.e. Caliver suite” commented Mr. Arvind Mehrotra, Executive Vice President of NIIT Technologies Limited.

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