Telkom And Microsoft Launch Solution to Accelerate Implementation of Cloud Computing in Indonesia

PT Microsoft Indonesia and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia announced a partnership on both sides to accelerate the penetration of technology for business in Indonesia with the launch of Cloud Computing Solution. This partnership is an effort to empower the future of Indonesian business, in which Telkom provides comprehensive Microsoft technology-based Cloud Computing to customers spread all over Indonesia.
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The potential market in Indonesia to adopt a solution-based Cloud Computing technology potential. This is evident from the existence of reliable partners that provide this service to drivers for the growth of Cloud Computing services as a service based on advanced IT. Potential business and industry in Indonesia for more kompetitifpun become very real. High-class IT infrastructure is available to finance the planned and every business can target their productivity levels.

According to data of Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2009, the number of SMEs in Indonesia are currently more than 520,000 business and business-class enterprisepun number reached 6800. This is the growth potential of Cloud-based IT pereknomian up to 3 times within a period of 2 years into the future (IDC 2008). However, when viewed from a strict level of competition today, where businesses are required to reduce capital, operating costs, human resources, production costs and more focus on revenue growth and business expansion, the solution is able to answer that challenge.

Forrester, a research firm, in the year 2008 in its report regarding the penetration growth projections Virtualize Servers (Forrester (2008) projection on Increase of virtualized server penetration) mentions that the future is estimated that the largest IT services will come from the cloud. Today's implementation is still less than 8%. By Cloud Computing, applications, operating systems and other software found online. Computing Cloud-based services can make the firm quickly and easily increase storage capacity for virtually obtained. This service also offers a business model of "utility computing" whereby customers pay only for facilities that are used, as well as subscribe to electricity. Industry analysts predict a sharp increase in adoption of Cloud Computing. According to IDC, IT spending globally-based Cloud Computing will grow to triple in the next three years and will reach a value of U.S. $ 42 billion in 2010.

Telkom as a leader solutions provider TIME (Telecommunications, Information, Media & Edutainment) in Indonesia along with Microsoft leading provider of global IT solutions-based services to work together to build a trusted Cloud Computing, with a backbone that spans the entire industry.

Emilio Umeoka - Microsoft APAC president who participated in this event reveals that the IT transformation at the global level as well as the Asia Pacific region has led to the Cloud solution and Indonesia has a very large potential market opportunity for adopting it. "This partnership will be able to provide comprehensive solutions for businesses and industries and at the same time gives the acceleration in bringing Indonesia in the era of cloud computing technology." Umeoka said.

"Microsoft as a leader in the technology industry during the past 2 decades, committed to accelerate IT penetration among businesses, in order to empower the future of Indonesian business. Microsoft is optimistic that the partnership with Telkom can run successfully and meet the needs of the market in general, because Telkom has a broad customer reach and spread across Indonesia and Microsoft is one company that provides services Cloud Services with a very comprehensive, powerful technology, safe, and has the global reach and thus no longer questionable expertise and quality, "said Sutanto Hartono, President Director of PT Microsoft Indonesia. "Cloud Computing Solutions are offered through this partnership comes in the form of Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server Hosted which is one way that helps businesses in Indonesia to be more quickly in adopting the latest technology with affordable price & well planned," he said again.

With the new Corporate Identity Currently, Telkom Indonesia TIME provides excellent service and have more value for our customers. Through cooperation with world class players like Microsoft, Telkom's reach to a wider customer by providing IT services-based Cloud Computing. Through these services businesses including SMEs (Small Medium Enterprise) can concentrate on their core business, "said Indra Utoyo, Director IT & Supply Telkom.

Through the MoU signed today, Microsoft and Telkom has agreed to develop business in a broad sense Cloud Computing: "Start of Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Platform as a Service (PAAS), to the Software as a Service (SAAS)" which didelivery through a cloud of safe (trusted), "added Indra Utoyo.

Telkom and Microsoft partnership also involves local partners as implementornya, namely PT Infinys System Indonesia (Infinys). Founded in 2006, Infinys an Information Technology company which operates in the field of Cloud Computing. Infinys also a Microsoft Gold Partner with a specialization in Hosting Solutions (Solutions Hosting) which has been offering services since 2007 Hosted Exchange server. Now Infinys is one of the big players in business in Indonesia Cloud Computing that is focusing on the Microsoft platform with products such as Hosted Exchange Server 2010, Hosted Office Communications Server and Virtual Private servers with Windows Server 2008 as the operating system.

Cloud Computing Services Package

Through this partnership, Microsoft will provide Telkom with IT service solutions for customers based Cloud Computing Speedy and Metro to improve productivity and collaboration in the form of 2 package solutions such as:

1.Paket Communication & Collaboration, namely: Broadband + Exchange + OCS a form of SaaS (Software as Services) that provide unified communications features of Microsoft technology without having to install hardware or software. Hosted OCS offers:
Instant Messaging and Presence
Email and Unified Messaging
Peer-to-Peer Voice and Video
Desktop Sharing in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
Web-based IM, Email, Presence and Desktop Sharing

2.Paket virtualized servers, namely: Broadband + Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS), a form of IaaS (Infrastructure as Service). Virtual Private Servers (VPS) allows the company to share server costs with other customers, but they retain full control over their applications. Virtual Private Servers run as isolated processes within a Web Server, and provide full privacy and access with guaranteed bandwidth, CPU and disk space.

By adopting the Computing Cloud-based services, businesses can increase productivity, and competitiveness for a number of important factors follows:

    * Pay As You Grow / Pay As You Use. With Microsoft's Cloud Computing models, payment is made per month, according to what is used in the month. If customers use more, then pay more, if you use less, pay less.
    * Start anytime, Stop Anytime. This model will reduce the risk of IT investments, because customers pay according to needs, and can be started and stopped the process at any time as needed.
    * Switch changed from OPEX CAPEX, which means IT financing through the subscription method.
    * Outsourced complexity. Most of the maintenance will be undertaken by partners who provide hosting services and run all applications. IT departments in the company can focus on increasing innovation serve the user and no longer bothered with the work routines and pemeliharaaan. This can increase the productivity of not just IT staff but also the entire organization.
    * Automatically Get The Latest Technology. Mechanism of Cloud Computing is very beneficial for customers because it will always get the latest technology from Microsoft.

For more detailed information regarding the Microsoft Cloud Services, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/cloud/business_solutions/default.aspx