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With the Multi Cloud strategy, what ambitions does CMC Telecom have?

Aug 28, 2023

Pioneering in building “Make in Vietnam” cloud and strategic cooperation with Cloud giants in the world, CMC Telecom has realized its ambition to become the number one unit in providing multi-cloud solutions. (Multi Cloud), helping thousands of businesses digitally transform and improve operational productivity.

According to a report by Grandview Research, Multi Cloud is becoming a trend for businesses around the world with the market reaching 8.03 billion USD by 2022 and an expected compound annual growth rate of 28.0% by 2020. 2030. Using multi-cloud helps businesses increase operational flexibility, reducing dependence on a single supplier. However, the challenge with using multi-cloud is the complex management process, requiring a large and highly qualified workforce, and high costs.

Understanding that need, an infrastructure business in Vietnam has pioneered in providing multiple foreign cloud platforms combined with self-developed Cloud, which is CMC Telecom. During 15 years of establishment and development, CMC Telecom has become a leading name in building the “Make in Vietnam” cloud platform, with Multi Cloud solutions bringing the world’s leading “clouds” to the Vietnamese market.

Pioneer in “domestic” Cloud

As one of the top 5 ISPs in the Vietnamese market and focusing on business customers, CMC Telecom possesses the advantage of strong connection infrastructure and understanding to provide the most suitable products for businesses. Vietnamese industry. Since 2017, when the cloud computing trend began to develop in Vietnam, CMC Telecom has successfully developed and built the CMC Cloud platform. The Vietnamese “cloud” then met the urgent needs of many businesses, serving the need to operate quickly and “pull” data back to Vietnam to meet legal regulations.

CMC Cloud’s entire physical system is located in a Tier 3 data center, with the first PCI DSS security certificate in Vietnam. The system uses a private service with stable international cable connection, 40Gbps bandwidth. In particular, CMC Telecom is a unit with ISO 27017 – 27018 certificate, the international standard for information security and safety control for cloud computing services.

Comparing with technology companies in the world, CMC Telecom representative said the biggest advantage of a “local Cloud” is understanding the “taste” of local businesses. “Vietnamese businesses using domestic services will always be guaranteed and supported 24/7,” said Mr. Dang Tung Son, Deputy Director of Sales and Marketing CMC Telecom.

With domestic infrastructure, customer data is processed at high speed, minimizing latency, thereby improving operational efficiency. In addition, understanding the market also helps CMC Telecom provide the most suitable service packages, businesses can easily adjust resource flow to suit usage needs over different time periods, thereby optimizing costs.

After nearly 6 years of development in the market, CMC Cloud has become the leading domestic Cloud service in Vietnam, accounting for more than 25% of the market share. Not stopping there, early this year, CMC Telecom continued to upgrade and launch the new generation CMC Cloud with many improved features and services with 9 main product and service groups including: compute, storage, networking, databases, containers, management & governance, content delivery, automation, security.


CMC Cloud’s product and service ecosystem

“The launch of the new generation CMC Cloud will narrow the gap in scale and features with international Cloud, meeting the increasing needs of Vietnamese businesses on the digital transformation journey,” Mr. Son added.

Leading in international Cloud in Vietnam

As the trend of globalization develops, Vietnamese products go to the world, while many world information technology businesses penetrate the Vietnamese market, the need to use international Clouds becomes urgent. Thanks to its leading position in digital infrastructure, CMC Telecom is the name chosen as a senior partner when “giants” such as AWS, Google or Microsoft enter Vietnam.

With the advantage of a leading ISP, CMC Telecom provides direct connection to Data Centers of major cloud providers. With AWS, it is a Direct Connect connection, Google Cloud is through an Interconnect connection, and Microsoft Azure is an ExpressRoute connection. Large bandwidth, with a network stretching from North to South, connecting seamlessly with regional and world connection centers. That is also the point that makes CMC Multi Cloud different, which is difficult for any business today to replace.


CMC Telecom connects directly to Data Centers of cloud providers such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle

In 2018, one year after entering the cloud field, CMC Telecom achieved a Gold Competency rating in providing cloud computing services and officially became a Solutions Partner of Microsoft in 2018. Vietnam. To date, the company is also an Advanced Tier Service Partner of AWS and the first Vietnamese provider to be certified Premier Partner of Google Cloud globally. In April this year, on the eve of its 15th anniversary, CMC Telecom also officially became the first Vietnamese network operator to provide high-speed connection service – OCI FastConnect through Oracle cloud infrastructure in the Singapore area. .

Continuously expand the Cloud service ecosystem

With those strengths, CMC Cloud is currently the leading domestic cloud platform in Vietnam, continuously maintaining a compound growth rate of over 100% in 5 years, recommended for use by the Ministry of Information and Communications. The product also continuously received the award for Best Multi-Cloud Platform in Vietnam 2021 voted by IFM Magazine, Top 10 excellent digital platforms Make in Vietnam in 2021. CMC Telecom is also a Cloud Service Provider of 2022 announced by IBM, Best Digital Infrastructure Service Provider in Vietnam 2022 by IFM, Creative Cloud of the Year award at the recent Asian Telecom Awards.

These results not only demonstrate CMC Telecom’s determination to lead in the cloud computing segment in Vietnam, but are also a premise to help their customers receive the best services. These are the benefits of in-depth consultation, better preferential policies for products and services in the platform’s ecosystem, with many other accompanying benefits such as faster connection, more professionalism, and support monitoring. 24/7 support – something that few Cloud providers in Vietnam can do.

Talking about these successes, Mr. Dang Tung Son said that this is the result of a long preparation process and an investment strategy in the right direction. In particular, building a team of highly qualified human resources and continuously researching optimal solutions to effectively use the cloud is a top priority.

“As the leading Cloud provider in Vietnam and a premium partner of leading international Cloud Providers, we understand the complexity of managing multi-cloud environments. Therefore, CMC Telecom pays special attention and continuously develops high-quality human resources, specialized for each company to support businesses,” Mr. Son emphasized.


Mr. Dang Tung Son, Vice President/ Sales and Marketing Education CMC Telecom shared

To date, CMC Telecom has a Cloud system operation team of more than 600 employees, strictly stratified and specialized: Cloud Team, Network Team, Security Team,… 100% of Cloud Team’s technicians and solution architects are certified. Training and certifications issued by AWS, Google or Microsoft.

Thanks to that capacity foundation, CMC Telecom makes a difference from other units by not stopping at distribution, but also being able to create a product and service ecosystem that meets diverse user needs. enterprise cloud. The problem at that time for CMC Telecom was how to enable customers to use as many Cloud services as possible to best suit their needs, while still ensuring convenience, optimization in management and costs.

Most recently, this business introduced to the market CMC Cloud Management Platform – an “all in one” multi-cloud management platform, helping businesses easily manage multiple Clouds on a single control interface, with The ability to manage costs in real time, scan for security vulnerabilities according to world standards, thereby automatically making recommendations to optimize costs and improve performance. Along with that is SecureZone – a solution designed to create a safe Landing Zone environment, helping businesses “go to the cloud” quickly, effectively and safely.