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COUNTRY FOCUS : VIETNAM
Especially for in-app and product development processes , SBD Tel ’ s cloud enables dev teams to harness the power and efficiency of hyperconverged infrastructure to iterate faster than ever-moving applications from development , to quality assurance , to stage and finally to production with unprecedented speed and agility .
Built expertise with Red Hat support
The partnership with Red Hat means SBD Tel is now better able to offer a completely managed service to customers , and this strengthens the company ’ s position as Vietnam ’ s leading cloud service provider . Other providers may have built their cloud on community OpenStack , but as a Red Hat partner , only SBD Tel comes with vendor support .
“ It is more than IaaS . We didn ’ t start as OpenStack experts , but through the design and implementation phases our in-house team has absorbed Red Hat ’ s expertise . It means we ’ re able to solve any customer issue directly ,” said Chi .
Accelerating cloud momentum where assets , data and the network are protected , SBD Telecom is a reliable partner to its customers .
“ We assure our customers the best performance and latest cloud technology ,” said Chi .
Delivered scale and simplicity to support growth
The solution is also operationally efficient . The SBD Tel team has quickly become experts in the functionality of OpenStack and there is capacity available if the service needs to scale . Additionally , management is in one place .
“ Because of the API functionality , we can see how everything is performing through one portal . We have complete visibility . I can see everything we ’ ve built ,” said Chi .
With Red Hat , SBD Tel is creating a virtuous cycle of innovation by blending technology with enterprise resources to deliver the most transformative solutions to its customers . Thus , businesses are able to accelerate their growth with high performance , free-to-try cloud and support from experienced SBD Tel teams .
To help bring further value to the Vietnamese enterprises , SBD Tel became a Red Hat Certified Cloud Service Provider ( CCSP ), Red Hat ’ s sole partner in Vietnam . CCSPs use Red Hat cloud , container , management , storage , middleware and operating system software to build environments for customers . The program allows SBD Tel to offer As-a-Service solutions using the Red Hat products already in use in its data centers .
“ Being a CCSP inevitably brings SBD Tel closer to Red Hat ,” said Chi . He sees opportunities to talk to customers about Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform , Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage . The Red Hat engagement provides competitive advantages in terms of cobranding and support .
The immediate future for SBD Tel , he added , will involve Red Hat OpenShift .
“ We plan to do more than IaaS . We want customers to have a platform on which they build and deploy applications . There is a real growth opportunity for cloud services in Vietnam . We have a close friend in Red Hat .” p
We have complete visibility . I can see everything we ’ ve built .
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