Innovation and Business Opportunities in Cloud Computing

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Innovation and Business Opportunities in Cloud Computing

Dr. Thanachart NumnondaDirectorSoftware Park Thailand13 December 2011

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Agenda

Thailand ICT Positioning

Cloud Computing Situation in Thailand

Cloud Opportunity after the Crisis

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Thailand Positioning

Rank 27: World Competitiveness Index (IMD)

Rank 10: Economic Competitiveness (IMD)

Rank 50: IT Industry Competitiveness Index 2011 (EIU)

Rank 76:E-Government Development 2010 (UN)

Rank 7: Global Services Location Index 2011 ( AT Kearney)

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ICT Situation inThailand

17.486 Million Internet Users; 26.3% Penetration [ITU, 2009]

International Internet Bandwidth 818 bps [World Bank, 2008]

Broadband Subscription 994,000 users [ITU, 2009]

Mobile Cellular Subscription 65.9 M users [ITU, 2009]

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Emerging Technology Market

Broadband market is growing– 2.6 Million Homes has broadband

– Software Market 84,233 Million Baht in 2010

Mobile App & Technology is growing– Tablets & Smartphone explosion

– Local Mobile Apps 530 Apps in 2010 [1,300 Apps 495 Million Baht in 2011]

– Demand on mobile contents, m-commerce, m-payment

Cloud Computing is coming & large opportunities for Thai Enterprises

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Four Converging Trends That Will Change the Face of IT and Business

Cloud

Business impact of social computing

Context Aware Computing

Pattern Based Strategy

Source : Gartner

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“Cloud computing will transform the IT industry as it will alter the financial model upon

which investors look at technology providers, and it will change vertical industries, making the impact of the Internet on

the music industry look like a minor bleep,”.

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner

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Cloud Computing

No Capital Expenditure

Pay as you go

Pay only for what you need

Application Programming Interface (API)

Scalability and Elastic Capacity

Reliability

Device and location independence

Source : Architecting for the cloud : Amazon Web Services

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Cloud Computing Opportunity for SME

Use ICT for their business with low investment (no CAPEX; pay as you go)

Buy ICT as Services (subscription model) such as SaaS

Can focus on their business

Business Continuity

New Business Opportunity

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Issues of Cloud Services for SMEs

Lack of awareness // Misunderstanding about Cloud Computing

Security issue

Low Broadband/Internet Access

Data Protection

Limited Cloud Service Providers; both SaaS (Application) and IaaS (Data Center)

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Cloud Readiness Index 2011

Source : Asia Cloud Computing Association: September 2011

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Thailand Flood Crisis

Worst floods in half a century

$45 Billion Damage (World Bank)

Central Bank slashed its 2011 GDP forecast from 4.1% to 2.6%

Seven big industrial parks north of Bangkok were effected; 9,859 factories and about 660,000 jobs.

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Opportunity after the Crisis

More investment in IT infrastructure, software solutions.

Long-term growth opportunities for the IT industry, especially technologies associated with cloud computing, data backup centres, data recovery and business continuity services.

Broadband and 3G is growing // Cloud Computing for SMEs

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Cloud Thailand

CloudThailandGroup

LocalCloud Data

Center

TrainingCloud

Developerswith ATPAC

Cloud Outsourcing

Center

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Business Continuity with Cloud Solutions

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Thank you

thanachart@swpark.or.thwww.swpark.or.thwww.facebook.com/softwareparkthailand