Event Geek

Globe Business recently backed CloudCamp 2012, one of the world’s biggest gathering of early adapters, proponents and developers of cloud solutions and related technologies in the country. CloudCamp is a series of conferences held around the world each year, conceptualized by those who adopted cloud computing in its infancy so they can have a venue in discussing issues about it. Using a unique conference format where the delegates freely exchanged ideas in pocket sessions, this year’s leg of the CloudCamp held at the Marriott Hotel in Cebu gathered IT experts as well as novices who intend to tap cloud computing as a service for their businesses. The Cebu leg of CloudCamp focused on the types of cloud computing services such as infrastructure, software and platform.

 The concept behind cloud computing is the sharing of resources similar to an electricity grid, with the Internet serving as its network. As a fully-managed service, Globe Business Cloud Solutions allows companies to gain access to a “pool of servers” connected to a digital network. This translates to lower cost structures of enterprises, enhanced business agility, profitability and operational efficiency, but more importantly, better focus on their core businesses. Globe Business Technical Solutions Architect Benjamin Tan said that cloud computing addresses the physical, security of and cost aspects of data storage: “Today’s employees often take their work and company data with them. And Murphy’s Law can take effect when we expect it the most: drives are not infallible and when they breakdown, that’s when it will hurt companies the most. Those events will be things of the past with the cloud. For businesses, it brings about utmost peace of mind and lowered operation costs.”

Globe Business has been the telco pioneer in cloud solutions in the Philippines since 2011. Its initial offering, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, allows customers to spend their IT and telco infrastructure as a service rather than as a capital expenditure, which includes *Backup-as-a-Service*, *Storage-as-a-Service*and *Compute-as-a-Service*. It also introduced the Philippines’ first Dynamic Infrastructure Services (DIS), which simplifies cloud computing by leveraging pre-configured and fully tested components so businesses can build private cloud environments at a lower cost.

Furthermore, users can experience the benefits of platform-as-a-service with DIS due to its development tools. This means that companies now have the capability to develop their own applications for their specific requirements. Access to these tools also provides users another layer of flexibility given that they can create, debug and maintain their own sets of applications in their network.

As a full-service ICT provider, Globe Business understands the needs of enterprises and provides them with a complete range of ICT portfolio of products and services that perfectly match their business requirements such as managed services and machine-to-machine or M2M solutions. The company’s data center and Carrier Ethernet services are ISO- and MEF global standards-certified, respectively.