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Telkomtelstra, Microsoft to jointly launch hybrid cloud service
ICT solutions provider Telkomtelstra will launch the Azure hybrid cloud platform by the end of the first semester in cooperation with United States-based technology giant Microsoft in a joint effort to tap into the country’s growing cloud services market
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CT solutions provider Telkomtelstra will launch the Azure hybrid cloud platform by the end of the first semester in cooperation with United States-based technology giant Microsoft in a joint effort to tap into the country’s growing cloud services market.
Telkomtelstra president director Erik Meijer said on Thursday that the new service would give its corporate clients more options on where and how to store important data.
“Through hybrid cloud, the customer can freely choose which data would be stored in the public cloud and which service provider hosts the data center, while confidential data could be stored in a private cloud in the data center owned by the customer,” Erik said recently during a visit to The Jakarta Post’s office.
Cloud-computing services refer to the delivery of on-demand computing resources, such as applications and data centers, over the internet on a pay-for-use basis. Under such a scheme, businesses can easily adjust their computing needs in response to fluctuations in demand, eliminating the need for massive investments into local infrastructure.
Data from the Synergy Research Group show that Amazon Web Services (AWS) last year still held a dominant share of more than 40 percent of the global public cloud services market, which includes data storage, computing and networking services.
The three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud Data Services — meanwhile, have increased their worldwide market share by almost five percentage points over the last year and together now account for 23 percent of the total public cloud market.
Erik said that, in Indonesia, many local companies were still reluctant to use third-party data storage for fear that their confidential data would be leaked. With the flexibility given to customers, Erik said, he hoped customers would feel more secure to store part of their data at third-party data centers.
According to the Asia Pacific Microsoft survey, which involved 1,200 IT leaders in 12 countries, 48 percent of the IT leaders in Asia Pacific region preferred a hybrid cloud solution to both a public or a private cloud for their organizations.
The survey showed that 43 percent of the Indonesian respondents had used hybrid cloud services, which refers to a cloud-computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services.
This number was predicted to increase to 48 percent in 12 to 18 months. Meanwhile, private cloud users comprised 30 percent and public cloud users 27 percent.
Erik said that Telkomtelstra, a joint venture between state-owned telecommunications firm PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) and Australia’s Telstra, would invite 100 business executives to attend a seminar on the digital transformation, which will be held by the company later this month.
About 40 percent of them will be further invited to attend a six-month workshop on the same issue. Telkomtelstra hopes that the seminar and the workshop will make local executive more aware about the need for a digital transformation in their respective organizations.
Established in 2015, Telkomtelstra currently provides private and public cloud services for its Managed Cloud service. It also offers three other services, namely managed network services, managed security services and unified communications.
Meanwhile, consultancy firm International Data Corporation (IDC) senior market analyst Reza Haryo said total IT spending in Indonesia amounted to US$14 billion last year. About 50 percent of that comprised enterprise spending and the remainder consumer spending.
He claimed that spending on IT services alone reached $1.3 billion, including $400 million spent for managed network services and $80 million for public cloud services.
Currently, Telkomtelstra’s top service users come from the finance and banking sectors, which account for 18 percent. Meanwhile, the transportation industry contributed 9 percent, as did both retail and the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry.
Since its operations began in 2016, Telkomtelstra has served 77 enterprises with a total contract value of Rp 264 billion. (dra)
— The Jakarta Post intern Ahmad F. Bayuny contributed to this article
